> On 27 Jan 2004 11:57:01 -0800 > Tom Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm seeing a number of emails like [EMAIL PROTECTED] coming in to my >> server. They are from different users. Since the local user doesn't >> exist, qmail is attempting to bounce the message back to the sender. >> Most of these are failing, the messages are obviously spam. >> >> I'm running vpopmail on the domains in question. Is there any way to >> configure vpopmail or qmail to reject email if the local address >> doesn't exist, or to silently trash the email? > > You can delete them pretty easily if you create a "catchall" account and > then tell it to delete all e-mail delivered to that account. Something > like "junk" or "spamtrap" is usually a good name for the catchall > account, if you're making it strictly to dump all mail coming to users > that don't exist. Make sure you don't have any valid e-mail going to > that catchall before you start deleting them though. > > HTH, > Jacob
Could the "postmaster" account be used for this or would creating a special account be preferred? Peace... Tom
