[NBLUG/talk] Email Boxes

[Walter Hansen]

I've got sendmail. I'll try to look it up.

> Well, most MTAs have functionality for a 'bad user' file.. Such a file
> contains a list of usernames that the MTA always rejects email for.
> Another option (much less pretty, and probably not a good idea) is to
> alias the username to a non-existent username, thus it would return the
> correct error code to the connecting client.  Option 1 is ideal, option
> 2 is probably for only if you can't find any other way.
>
> - Chris
>
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> Of Walter Hansen
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 4:22 PM
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> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Email Boxes
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>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:53:36AM -0700, Walter Hansen wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Better to simply refuse receipt for those addresses than to discard
>> them, IMO.  Less impact on your server, less invitation for spammers
>> to send spam and the one time a real person sends email to nobody you
>> won't be misleading them into thinking they sent email that goes
>> someplace useful.
>
>
> Ummm. How do I disable a mail account for a user that I assume is useful
> to the sytem? I'm probably just missing something obvious here.
>
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