Re: Mail sent to "users" in /etc/aliases
On 12.11.06 17:16, Bill Moseley wrote:
> My /etc/aliases file has entires like this:
>
> daemon: root
> bin: :fail: Unknown User
> sys: root
> sync: root
> games: root
> man: root
> lp: root
> mail: root
> news: root
> uucp: root
> proxy: root
> postgres: root
> www-data: root
>
> When would mail ever get delivered *to* those addresses?
If they have cron jobs, their output is sent to them for example.
> Will anything break if mail can't be delivered to "www-data", for example?
Nothing should, but you may loose e.g. output from the cron jobs...
> I've been getting more spam lately addresses to common unix users, so
> I'm thinking about rejecting mail to those users -- well, any user
> that is not listed in a separate "valid-users" type of file.
I disabled receiving the mail for them via SMTP (I use virtusertable,
aliased them all to e.g. root@localhomain, and disabled all traffic to
recipients @hostname, except postmaster@hostname).
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