avl wrote: > And, though it rejects mail now, when I specify full address, it rejects > it only after it gets all its body (may be very large).. > It would be better to reject the unwanted email immediately , without the > need to transfer all it's body... Do you have "O DeliveryMode=deferred"? That causes most of the check_* rules to be skipped. When functioning correctly, specifying a blacklisted address in the SMTP "RCPT" command should result in the configured 550 response. What does an actual SMTP conversation look like? -- Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org