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Restrict mail from Sendmail

Hello All,

i have configured sendmail and trying to set a limit on mail

Ex: If i have send any mail to a email-if that doesn'e exists, i want that after trying for 3 days it should stops sending that mail to user and send a mail to the sender that " sending mail failed , any messaged indicating that "

i tried to find some useful information regrading this but not able to get some useful information

Help me out in this

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Basically, you want a blackhole list for email addresses, rather than domains.

Question: what happens if 1 week from now, that account suddenly exists and accepts mail?

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