Hi All,
My server is being hit really hard with spam. Most of the stuff I'm
now finding filling up my queue is aimed at local users such as:-
root@mydomain.com
uucp@mydomain.com
mail@mydomain.com

My server has several domains, so the spam is hitting me hard:-
root@domain1.com
root@domain2.com
root@domain3.com
and so on...

I've tried updating my aliases file and the mail for uucp@ and mail@
is no longer going to the root inbox, but it is still coming in and
now just going to uucp and mail mail boxes respectively.

I've searched but cannot figure out how I can get sendmail to reject
mail aimed at these users so that they never get into my queue.

Please .



Lyle

1) can you define aliases such as

root: /dev/null
uucp: /dev/null

in file /etc/mail/aliases

and then run newaliases

2) look up "access.db sendmail" in google and say in access file:

To:root@example.com 550 root does not accept email

i

On 2008-03-20, Cosmic <webmaster@cosmicperl.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> My server is being hit really hard with spam. Most of the stuff I'm
> now finding filling up my queue is aimed at local users such as:-
> root@mydomain.com
> uucp@mydomain.com
> mail@mydomain.com
>
> My server has several domains, so the spam is hitting me hard:-
> root@domain1.com
> root@domain2.com
> root@domain3.com
> and so on...
>
> I've tried updating my aliases file and the mail for uucp@ and mail@
> is no longer going to the root inbox, but it is still coming in and
> now just going to uucp and mail mail boxes respectively.
>
> I've searched but cannot figure out how I can get sendmail to reject
> mail aimed at these users so that they never get into my queue.
>
> Please .
>
>
>
> Lyle

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:04:36 -0700, Cosmic wrote:

> I've searched but cannot figure out how I can get sendmail to reject
> mail aimed at these users so that they never get into my queue.
>
> Please .

http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/protected.html
http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/restrict.html

Thanks both of you for the info.