Date:  Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:17:33 -0500
From:  "Darrell D. Mobley" <dmobley (at mark) uhostme.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:12144] Re: AW:  disable remote mail for root user
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
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But, he wants to get normal system generated root messages, and doesn't want
to get stuff people email to root (at mark) domain.tdl, i.e. spam.  If he does as you
suggest, everything goes in the shitter.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Smith [mailto:lesmith (at mark) ecsis.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 7:54 PM
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:12143] Re: AW: disable remote mail for root user
> 
> On Thu February 28 2008 16:57, Zeffie wrote:
> > well ..  you could run this everytime to change someting in the gui...
> >
> > perl -pi -e "s|root@|# root@|" /etc/mail/virtusertable
> >
> > and you it could be removed it for a gui handler somewhere I'm thinking,
> > but not looking...
> >
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Florian Arzberger" <arzberger (at mark) maxxnet.de>
> > To: <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:51 PM
> > Subject: [coba-e:12139] AW: disable remote mail for root user
> >
> > > Florian Arzberger <mailto:arzberger (at mark) maxxnet.de> schrieb am Dienstag,
> 26.
> > >
> > > Februar 2008 23:58:
> > >> what is the best way to disable remote mail to user root@sitename on
> > >> a cbq system? i'd like to reject everything to root@whateversite that
> > >> does not originate from localhost.
> > >
> > > no ideas on this? ;)
> 
> It is even easier than all that, you guys try to complicate things too
> much.
> 
> Just create an "alias" (outside the Cobalt/Bluequartz part) named
> "discard"
> the sends things to /dev/null.  Then create a .forward (through the GUI)
> for
> root or whatever account you want to "discard" mail for and direct it
> to "discard".  Been doing this for years on various servers and it works
> great...
> 
> 1. Just _be_ _aware_ it does discard everything sent to that account....
> 2. remember to run "newaliases" after you edit the alias file
> 
> --
> Larry Smith
> SysAd ECSIS.NET
> sysad (at mark) ecsis.net
> 
> --
> Larry Smith
> lesmith (at mark) ecsis.net