From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 9:33:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CEF437BAFC for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 09:33:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA23677; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:30:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <39981EB4.80E0D711@wmptl.com> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:30:44 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dale@icr.com.au Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail question References: <39977CA8.9CAD4EBB@icr.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dale Walker wrote: > > not strictly 'freebsd' based, but this is the q. > > A user who controls his own mail server doesn't want to reject email > destined for unknown users, instead he wants to receive it to a local > account. > > After explaining the risks from spammers,etc flooding his system, he > still wants to go ahead.. > > Has anyone done anything similar in the past?? > btw: this is FreeBSD 4.1 using sendmail as the MTA. > > -- > Dale Walker dale@icr.com.au > Independent Computer Retailers (ICR) http://www.icr.com.au > ICRnet http://www.icr.net.au > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message instead of putting something like this into your virtusertable file: jdoh@whatever.com johnd put this: @whatever.com johnd Sendmail will evaluate all of the virtual users listed above the 'catch-all' alias first. So you can still have multiple accounts, and then just an @whatever.com account forward to said user's mailbox. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message