Server :: Make Sendmail Silently Discard 'Catchall' Addresses

Using sendmail, I am trying to setup a catchall address to silently discard spam mail sent to undefined users. I don't want to bounce a reply for "no user" as this often goes back to munged or innocent addresses.

I have a number of domains, so my virtuser table currently looks rather like this:

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The last line is the "catchall" which is intended to ensure that any undefined users from either my_domain.com or my_domain.co.uk is forwarded to the non-existent "catchall" user account. Note that all mail sent to my_domain.com is passed across to my_domain.co.uk at the very start so all the following rules should apply to messages received at both domains. (Both of these domains appear in the

Being non-existent, I setup the following rules in the access data table:

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This way, if I send an email to 'user1@my_domain.com' it is received and delivered to user1@my_domain.co.uk, but if I send an email to 'rubbish@my_domain.com' it *should* be received and silently discarded.

Unfortunately what actually happens is the server responds with:

Now, (just for testing), I made "catchall" an alias for the "postmaster" account and the mail was then received and delivered into the postmaster mailbox. So I know the virtuser rule is working. The account "catchall", however, is not being silently dropped as desired in either configuration.