From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Aug 22 14: 4: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from spooky.eis.net.au (spooky.eis.net.au [203.12.171.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1155B37B43C for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:04:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ernie@localhost) by spooky.eis.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA29808 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 06:21:35 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from ernie) From: Ernie Elu Message-Id: <200008222021.GAA29808@spooky.eis.net.au> Subject: Stopping User unknown messages To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 06:21:35 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Does anyone know of a sendmail directive to stop the postmasters mail box filling up with "User unknown" messages? This occurs from typos, deleted users, and most of all spam programs trying random user names. I have just taken over the postmasters job and my mailbox is full of garbage that requires no follow up every hour. Freebsd 4.1-RELEASE with sendmail version 8.9.3.1 - Ernie. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message