Re: Can I stop accounts from receiving mail?

["Charlie Brune" <SILUG27@BruneWorld.com>]

Thanks, Bob!  But ... what I need to do is to allow accounts to receive
mail "internally", but NOT from the Internet.

I'm still stumped.

Thanks again,
Charlie


> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 12:43:41PM -0500, Charlie Brune wrote:
>> Is there a way to make it so that a user account can't receive mail?
>> I'm
>> using sendmail.  Some spammers have figured out that "root" exists for
>> many (most?) domain names.  So... I'd like to block mail to "root" from
>> the outside world.
>
> one way that I recall a friend did that was to put in the aliases file:
>
> root:		/dev/null
>
> --------------------------
>
> this will accept the mail just fine then drop it to /dev/null to be lost
> forever =)
>
> I just checked it and it works with postfix so YMMV with sendmail, good
> luck
>
>
> Bob T. Kat


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