[NBLUG/talk] disabling mail on account
Steve Johnson
srj at adnd.com
Wed Apr 23 12:34:37 PDT 2008
What about this, instead of an aliase to |/dev/null make the alias to
invaliduser, then it should return a bounce message (assuming you
don't really have a username 'invalid user' )
Seems to me I've done this in the past too, with success.
-Steve
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:24 PM, <gandalf at sonic.net> wrote:
> 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:
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> > 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
> something
> > 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]
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> > ic.net sent:
> > > yea, sendmail.
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> > > I tried that but couldn't get it to work. I probably
> >
> > >
> >
> > > don't have the feature turned on in the m4 options. In
> > my experience
> > >
> >
> > > I'm better off not messing with them if they're
> > working. Or I could
> > >
> >
> > > 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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> > > "There probably isn't any meaning in life. Perhaps you
> > can find
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> > > something interesting to do while you are alive." -
> > Orochimaru
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> > > (Naruto)
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> > > On Wed 23/04/08 11:42 AM , "Steve Johnson" srj at adnd.com [3]
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> > > [1] sent:
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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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> > > mail for a
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> > > > user?
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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 [4]
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> > > [2]
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> > > > ic.net> wrote:
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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 [5]
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> > > [3]
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> > > > /thatdomain/theotherdomain on my mailserver. I don't
> > see that the
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> >
> > > user
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> > >
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> > > > mail should have a functional mailbox anyway. I've
> > tried a couple
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> > > things
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> > > > with no success so far.
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> > > > > Also any suggestions on postmaster? I think it's
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> > > > required, but it gets spam and backsplatter from spam
> > all the
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> > > time.
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> > > > "Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is
> > enlightenment;
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> > > > Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self
> > needs
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> > > strength." -
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> > > http://webmail.sonic.net/javascript:top.opencompose('srj@adnd.
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> > > [2]
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> > > http://webmail.sonic.net/javascript:top.opencompose('gandalf@s
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> > > http://webmail.sonic.net/javascript:top.opencompose('mail@thid
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> > > http://webmail.sonic.net/javascript:top.opencompose('talk@nblu
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> Links:
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> http://webmail.sonic.net/javascript:top.opencompose(\'gandalf@sonic.net\',\'\',\'\',\'\')
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> [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\',\'\',\'\',\'\')
> [5]
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> http://webmail.sonic.net/javascript:top.opencompose(\'mail@thidomain\',\'\',\'\',\'\')
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> http://webmail.sonic.net/javascript:top.opencompose(\'talk@nblug.org\',\'\',\'\',\'\')
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