From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 5 8:31:17 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 C456C37B401 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 08:31:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [207.200.51.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D291143E9C for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 08:31:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gB5GV4c10670; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:31:04 -0600 (CST) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id gB5GV4q10185; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:31:04 -0600 (CST) Received: from centtech.com (electron [204.177.173.173]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gB5GUup10145; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:30:56 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3DEF7F28.9080306@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 10:30:32 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Mail Insanity References: <3DEF75D7.9040401@centtech.com> <01ae01c29c7a$a155c090$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > 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. 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