Thanks much too all that responded,
you guys rock!!
Do any of you know of any good way to restrict who can mail the [EMAIL PROTECTED] now
that it was
created?
or should i just comment out the allusers alias until i need to use it?
Thanks,
Rudy
Kenneth Porter wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 13:12:06 -0700, Alex M wrote:
>
> >Its done with an MTA, if you are running sendmail or any other sendmail-ish
> >MTA, read this chapter on how-to email all users:
> >
> >http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section4.html#4.21
>
> I keep all my legitimate users in /etc/mail/virtusertable, so I just
> build my aliases from that, grepping out a few special names like
> "postmaster". I added the command to the Makefile in /etc/mail, so the
> alias file gets rebuilt along with virtusertable.db just by typing
> "make".
>
> However, it would be nice to have a tool that could receive mail from
> sendmail and that would reformat it and deposit it in the bulletins
> directory with the next bulletin number. Sendmail has the ability to
> run a program for a given alias, so the tool could be hooked to that.
> For example, in /etc/aliases, one could have:
>
> bulletin: |/usr/local/sbin/make-bulletin
>
> For security, one could gpg-sign one's post and make-bulletin could
> check the signature before processing it. (It could deliver posts with
> failed sigs to the abuse alias.)
>
> Ken
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/
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