On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:54, Fedora wrote: > I'm using sendmail as the MTA and I would like to make it impossible for > certain users (root comes to mind, but there are other userids as well) to > receive email from the Internet. > > I'd like to "block" it, as opposed to having some sort of filter throw it > away after it's arrived. Ideally, these few userids would appear to be > invalid to anyone outside my network. > > On the other hand ... I do need for all users to be able to receive email > "internally" (i.e., from localhost). > > In my case, spammers have discovered that there is <gasp!> a "root" user > that they can send email to. > > Any thoughts? I believe you can do this via the access file. Just be careful, test it for local users access, you could block email for a user from all sources. An entry something like: To:root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx error:5.7.0:550 Address invalid May do the trick. What I am not 100% sure of is if this will block local email sent to root which you don't want to do. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx "I'd love to go out with you, but the man on television told me to say tuned."
