John wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] Locking a mailbox?' on Thu, Jan 20 at 15:55:
On Thursday 20 January 2005 12:49 pm, Danny Sauer wrote:
You could alias them to an unknown user - that'd get the "user unknown" message, and be just as ugly as an M4 file... You could alias them to /dev/null, but you're wasting a small amount of bandwidth that way.
I'll try that, (alias > unknown) because if it works i don't have to accept the mail, and it purges the spammers lists. Thanks for the tip.
Jsa - who still likes sendmail but is not a fanatic about it.
Ohhh, I'm a postfix fanatic, all right. :) BTW, there's probably something more "right" that will do this. Look into setting up "check_rcpt" and a database of users - the idea's the same as the postfix suggestion. http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/check.html#check_rcpt http://www.sendmail.org/m4/anti_spam.html Looks like it's probably easiest to deny relaying to particular addresses, based on a cursory overview of an MTA which I last used almost a decade ago, and didn't fully understand at that point. :) --Danny, done poking fun as sendmail, for now