On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 18:52 -0600, Charlie Brune wrote: Please do not post in HTML to the mailing list. I would not have seen this message except I periodically review all the (filtered) html mail for possible items of interest before I delete them and yours had an interesting subject line. > Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Am Mi, den 08.12.2004 schrieb Charlie Brune um 22:07: > > > > > > > Here's what I want: > > > -- I have a user called "fred". > > > -- I WANT fred to be able to receive mail from local users. > > > -- I DON'T want fred to be able to receive any mail via the internet. > > > -- I want to stop the mail to fred at the MTA (in my case, that's > > > sendmail). i.e., I don't just want to filter it out after it > > > arrives. Ideally, fred will appear to be an "invalid user" to > > > anyone on the Internet attempting to send him email. > > > > The solution is: > > > > http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/protected.html > > > > Alexander > > > > > Thanks, Alexander! The information in the link above works > perfectly. Now "root" (or anyone else of my choosing) can no longer > be mailed to from the outside. Mailing to them from within the system > continues to work perfectly. > > :-) > Charlie > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list