[clue-tech] Question for sendmail folks regarding bitbucketing email to certain accounts

Angelo Bertolli angelo at freeshell.org
Sun Feb 27 10:23:21 MST 2005


Chris Schock wrote:

>I get a lot of spam sent to info at xxx.xxx domains for which I host. There
>is no corresponding user for that address, so my mailer tries to send out
>a failure notification. And of course the sender address has been faked so
>these messages just sit in the queue getting retried for a week before
>finally dying.
>
>Reading the alias manpage says I can redirect accounts to a filename, so
>I'm going to try /dev/null. Is there a better way? How is everyone else
>doing this?
>
>Thanks
>

Take a look here:

http://www.sendmail.org/m4/anti_spam.html

And scroll down to the section that says:


      Finer control by using tags for the LHS of the access map
      <http://www.sendmail.org/m4/anti_spam.html#top>

I think you might be able to do something like :

To:info@    REJECT



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