On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Robin Becker wrote:
For some reason my FreeBSD 6.0 server's root account has started to receive
spam. Is there a simple way to restrict all mail for root to come from a
specified local domain eg 192.168.0.0/8? I'm a naive sendmail person so
please be gentle :)
I ran into something similar recently. Since you son't say, I'll assume
you're running sendmail (if not please disregard the following).
What I had to do was create the file /etc/mail/virtusertable. The idea
is to list users you _do_ want to accept mail for and exclude anything
else, thus rejecting mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] My
virtusertable looks something like this (names changed):
[EMAIL PROTECTED] chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] chris
@mydomain.com error:nouser No such user here
With this setup, mail to users chris and abuse get sent to me. Mail to
any other username gets rejected with "No such user here". [ I got the
hint about that key last line from
http://www.freebsddiary.org/virtualmail.php ]
Once you have edited virtusertable, you must do a 'make' in the
directory /etc/mail, then '/etc/rc.d/sendmail restart'. All as root, of
course. Should be OK after that.
HTH.
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Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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