[NBLUG/talk] Reject mail to specific users.

E Frank Ball frankb at frankb.us
Fri Mar 9 14:21:08 PST 2007


On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:05:45PM -0800, Steve Johnson wrote:
 > I have a sendmail question, I noticed that a lot of system accounts (bind,
 > bin, www-data, etc..) tend to get tons of email from spammers.. Is there a
 > way (besides aliasing them to |/dev/null) to reject mail to these accounts?

There is no need for any of these accounts to receive mail.
Just delete them from the aliases file and any mail will be
rejected.  I did that for uucp when it started getting spam.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us



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