Roger Merchberger wrote:
>
> Rumor has it that Albert Hopkins may have mentioned these words:
> >
> >I'm not sure what's going on, but we've been getting hit with repetitive
> >emails for almost a week now. I have disabled the account on our side
> >that is the recipient, but now I've been getting bounce messages. I've
> >tried putting the sender in badmailfrom, but apparently this does not work
> >or I'm doing it wrong.
>
> The best, quick way to stop the bounces is to make an alias in your
> /var/qmail/alias directory with the filename:
>
> .qmail-cferguson
>
> with just a hash mark (#) in the file. This will cause all mail for this
> once-existant mailbox to fall quietly into /dev/null.
>
> HTH,
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
> --
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
> Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
>
> If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
> disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
Try the anti-spam patch from the "Yet More Qmail Addons" section on the
qmail homepage,
<ftp://ftp.fmp.com/pub/linux/qmail>. You can then add an address into a
"new" file
called badrcptto, and qmail-smtpd will reject the mail.
--
/hans
