On Thu February 28 2008 20:17, Darrell D. Mobley wrote:
> > 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
> 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.
>
Hmmm, ok, believe that most "system" generated messages go to
the "admin" account by default, which on most systems is aliased to
root. Or make procmail your friend.
--
Larry Smith
lesmith (at mark) ecsis.net