[NBLUG/talk] Reject mail to specific users.

[Steve Johnson]

On 3/9/07, E Frank Ball <frankb at frankb.us> wrote:
>
> 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.


(Resending... sent from wrong account before..)

Well, on my Debian system, these are actualy accounts, not alaises, so to
get rid of them would mean to deluser them, and I believe that would break
things =)

-Steve
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