[NBLUG/talk] Reject mail to specific users.

[E Frank Ball]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:26:43PM -0800, Steve Johnson wrote:
 > 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.
 > 
 > 
 > 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 =)

Your right, mail does get received, it just piles up
un-noticed without the alias.  oops.

I don't know how to stop it with sendmail, but I can block
it with postfix by using an access-recipient file.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us