On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:04:37AM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote:
| hi!
|
| i was selling a car once and posted a message to some new jersey for
| sale newsgroup. luckily i set up an alias "car" to send the message...
So far so good. (in fact, I did nearly the same thing several months
ago)
| 'cause now i'm getting a lot of spam to that alias. so, i took "car" out
| of /etc/aliases, but now exim receieves the message, hold it it queue,
| then bounces it back to me since the original sender is "<>"!
That seems like a bit of misconfiguration in exim. If you have no
local users named 'car' and no alias in /etc/aliases, then exim
shouldn't accept the message in the first place.
| so, as a solution, i would like to put "car: /dev/null" in /etc/aliases,
| but wanted to check here in case there is a better way of doing it.
You can do that. What I did was to change the alias to
:fail: Thanks for your interest, but the car is gone.
I would actually recommend using ":blackhole:" instead of "/dev/null"
because then exim won't even bother with opening the file and writing
to it.
-D
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