Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 10:30:32 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mail Insanity Message-ID: <3DEF7F28.9080306@centtech.com> References: <3DEF75D7.9040401@centtech.com> <01ae01c29c7a$a155c090$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable>
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Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > From: "Eric Anderson" <anderson@centtech.com> > To: "FreeBSD Chat" <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> > 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. I thought about that, but that would be a major pain, since I have a very large aliases file.. Are there any other more elegant ways to do this? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Beware the fury of a patient man. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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