From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 5 8:25:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E8A537B401 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 08:25:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 601B643EBE for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 08:25:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from DaleCoportable [12.145.226.138] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.13) id AD7873A026E; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 10:23:20 -0600 Message-ID: <01ae01c29c7a$a155c090$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: "Eric Anderson" , "FreeBSD Chat" References: <3DEF75D7.9040401@centtech.com> Subject: Re: Mail Insanity Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:23:19 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org From: "Eric Anderson" To: "FreeBSD Chat" Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 9:50 AM Subject: Mail Insanity > I think I'm going to go insane. > > The spammers of the world have been sending mail to (insert made up name > here)@mydomain.com, causing my sendmail to respond to them with "No such > user", which bounces BACK to me since they are using a fake address, > which ends up in my inbox (I am postmaster). I'm getting about 1000 per > day, and can't take it anymore.. > > Anyone found a solution for this? > > Eric > Define a 'catch-all' in virtusertable, point it to /dev/null. Might require you to also enter all your needed system aliases in that file, but it sounds as if it might be worth it. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message