[HPADM] Re: [SUMMARY] sendmail: mail to unknown users - how to put it in a bit bucket

From: Julius Szelagiewicz (julius_at_turtle.com)
Date: 08/27/03

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    Dear Folks,
            There were no takers on this problem, so I called HP support. The
    nice gentleman told me to upgrade sendmail to 8.11.1. I did that and after
    additional googling run gen_cf with options 6 and 16. That sets up
    sendmail.cf.gen with LUSER-RELAY and Kaccess macros. setting DL to
    localhost:nobody causes the misadressed emails to be dropped into the bit
    bucket. julius

    Original problem:
    > I have a sendmail question. I have an incoming mail server that
    > doesn't know the user names and forwards everything (after virus and spam
    > scan) to my production box - HP-UX 11.0, lightly patched. Sendmail is the
    > SMTP. I would like to make sure that there would be *no* responses to the
    > incoming mail addressed to "unknown" users, I'd like to just drop those
    > messages without a trace. The one option i see is to set LUSER-RELAY to
    > something that translates to /dev/null. Is tis a good idea? if it is, how
    > do i do it? tia, julius
    >
    > 

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