[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.
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>  I found more accounts like this so I set them all up: lp, mail,
>  news, uucp
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>  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.
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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 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
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>   > > don't have the feature turned on in the m4 options. In
>   > my experience
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>   > > I'm better off not messing with them if they're
>   > working. Or I could
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>   > > 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
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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
>   > /etc/mail/access to deny
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>   > > mail for a
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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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>   > > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:29 AM,  gandalf at son [4]
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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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>   > > > mail should have a functional mailbox anyway. I've
>   > tried a couple
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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
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