<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">E Frank Ball</b> <<a href="mailto:frankb@frankb.us">frankb@frankb.us</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:05:45PM -0800, Steve Johnson wrote:<br> > I have a sendmail question, I noticed that a lot of system accounts (bind,<br> > bin, www-data, etc..) tend to get tons of email from spammers.. Is there a
<br> > way (besides aliasing them to |/dev/null) to reject mail to these accounts?<br><br>There is no need for any of these accounts to receive mail.<br>Just delete them from the aliases file and any mail will be<br>rejected. I did that for uucp when it started getting spam.
</blockquote><div><br>(Resending... sent from wrong account before..)<br><br>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 =)<br> <br>-Steve<br><br></div></div><br>