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I am using sendmail.
I was looking in my OReilly sendmail book and I could not find any
reference to :error: - I do see for alias - aliasename: /dev/null though.
Does the :error:nouser work for just those names not in the passwd
file? I already reject anyone not in passwd.
Doug
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Stephen Gran wrote:
> These are system accounts, necessary so that programs can run as
> non-priviledged users. If you are gettig spam to them (not uncommon),
> set up the appropriate rules in /etc/aliases - it depends on your MTA
> what the syntax is, but exim4 uses :fail: <some string>, sendmail uses
> :error:nouser <some string>, and I'm sure others do similar things. You
> can of course, redirect them all to root, as many people do.
> --
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