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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Steve Warwick <ukla@attbi.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Sendmail - blackhole da spam?
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On 2003-02-28 11:36, Steve Warwick <ukla@attbi.com> wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> I seem to be getting more spam lately and in an effort to protect my clients
> I use a catch all in the the virtuser table
>
> @domain-name.ext error:nouser
>
> However, this is resulting in more traffic as the spam needs to be bounced
> back out, to a server that refuses the mail and so on.
>
> Question is: is it possible to send catch all mail to a blackhole? dev/null
> for example

Sure.  Hint: look in /etc/mail/aliases for the definition of the
`bit-bucket' and `dev-null' aliases... :)


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