[NBLUG/talk] disabling mail on account

[gandalf at sonic.net]

Not to be outdone. I set up aliases that point to /dev/null in the
sendmail config. This seems to work, but just accepts and trashes the
spam. I'd much rather reject it.

I found more accounts like this so I set them all up: lp, mail,
news, uucp

Please let me know of better ways or if I'm doing something I
shouldn't. I've currently got postmaster going to my main address,
but it gets a lot of backspatter and spam.

"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 12:12 PM , gandalf at sonic.net [1] sent:
 > It moved the link to "BOGUS.mail.KAQL" and recreated the normal
mailbox
 > "mail". Lovely.
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 > "There probably isn't any meaning in life. Perhaps you can find
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 > interesting to do while you are alive." - Orochimaru (Naruto)
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 > On Wed 23/04/08 11:55 AM , gandalf at son [2]
 > ic.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
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 > > I'm better off not messing with them if they're
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 > > have done it wrong.  I'll give the symlink a try. Not
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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 [3]
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 > > > Are you using sendmail?
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 > > > I'm wondering if you can add a line to
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 > > > One thing I have done, just to be quick and dirty
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 > > > make a symbolic link from /var/spool/mail/username to
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 > > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:29 AM,  gandalf at son [4]
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 > > > > This is indeed a tough thing to google. I'm getting
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 > > > bunch of spam at mail at thidomain [5]
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 > > > /thatdomain/theotherdomain on my mailserver. I don't
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 > > > mail should have a functional mailbox anyway. I've
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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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Links:
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[1]
http://webmail.sonic.net/javascript:top.opencompose(\'gandalf@sonic.net\',\'\',\'\',\'\')
[2]
http://webmail.sonic.net/javascript:top.opencompose(\'gandalf@son\',\'\',\'\',\'\')
[3]
http://webmail.sonic.net/javascript:top.opencompose(\'srj@adnd.com\',\'\',\'\',\'\')
[4]
http://webmail.sonic.net/javascript:top.opencompose(\'gandalf@son\',\'\',\'\',\'\')
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http://webmail.sonic.net/javascript:top.opencompose(\'mail@thidomain\',\'\',\'\',\'\')
[6]
http://webmail.sonic.net/javascript:top.opencompose(\'talk@nblug.org\',\'\',\'\',\'\')
[7]
http://webmail.sonic.net/javascript:top.opencompose(\'talk@nblug.org\',\'\',\'\',\'\')