[NBLUG/talk] Email Boxes

Chris Wagner chriswagner at amyskitchen.net
Mon Jun 19 11:20:13 PDT 2006


RFC 822 specifies that "postmaster" be valid..

RFC 2142 also has a list of suggested aliases.  I think some of these
are good, but obviously not all.
http://rfc.net/rfc2142.html 

As far as directing your listed aliases to dev/null, for most of them
it's probably OK, though I've never done it myself.

Personally, I use spamassassin with pretty defaultish rules (and fairly
minimal administration) and only get a few spams a day, but then you may
be on a higher visibility net block.

- Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at nblug.org [mailto:talk-bounces at nblug.org] On Behalf
Of Walter Hansen
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 10:54 AM
To: talk at nblug.org
Subject: [NBLUG/talk] Email Boxes

On a stock madrake(mandrivia) system (sendmail) I've got a dozzen or so
stock mail aliases. As the machine actually does serve mail I'm less
than happy about having additional pipes for spam. I'm wondering if it's
safe to just put them to /dev/null or even just delete them.

main bunch
--------------
bin
daemon
games
ingres
nobody
system
toor
uucp
manager
dumper
operator
decode
mail

different ones
-----------------
apache - forwarding to root, but I wonder why apache could need an email
address. Yes I'm running apache.
postmaster - I'm pretty sure I'm required to have this one. I have it
auto-replying with a message saying "if this is an actual issue send
email to whansen at corporate-image dot com" as I was shocked and amazed
that I was getting spam on it (a new low for spammers).


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