[NBLUG/talk] disabling mail on account

gandalf at sonic.net gandalf at sonic.net
Wed Apr 23 12:12:10 PDT 2008


It moved the link to "BOGUS.mail.KAQL" and recreated the normal mailbox "mail". Lovely.


"There probably isn't any meaning in life. Perhaps you can find something interesting to do while you are alive." - Orochimaru (Naruto)

 On Wed 23/04/08 11:55 AM , gandalf at sonic.net sent:
> yea, sendmail. 
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> I tried that but couldn't get it to work. I probably
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> don't have the feature turned on in the m4 options. In my experience
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> I'm better off not messing with them if they're working. Or I could
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> have done it wrong.  I'll give the symlink a try. Not as good as
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> bouncing the address entirely though.
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> On Wed 23/04/08 11:42 AM , "Steve Johnson" srj at adnd.com
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> > Are you using sendmail?
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> > I'm wondering if you can add a line to /etc/mail/access to deny
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> > One thing I have done, just to be quick and dirty about it, was to
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> > make a symbolic link from /var/spool/mail/username to /dev/null
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> > -Steve
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> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:29 AM,  gandalf at son
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> > > This is indeed a tough thing to google. I'm getting a
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> > bunch of spam at mail at thidomain
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> > /thatdomain/theotherdomain on my mailserver. I don't see that the
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> > mail should have a functional mailbox anyway. I've tried a couple
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> > >  Also any suggestions on postmaster? I think it's
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> http://webmail.sonic.net/javascript:top.opencompose(\'srj@adnd.
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> http://webmail.sonic.net/javascript:top.opencompose(\'gandalf@s
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