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Re: [cobalt-security] OT: Cobalt and Spam mail
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] OT: Cobalt and Spam mail
- From: storage@xxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:18:58 -0000
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
Steve West <wppiphoto@xxxxxxxx> said:
> We have a raq3 box which seems if anyone sends an e-mail to
> postmaster@xxxxxxxxxx, it comes through even though we don't have a user
> "postmaster" setup in the site users.
>
> Does anyone know how where to I can remove this user from? I checked the gui
> but nothing.
>
You can remove it by editing the files /etc/mail/aliases
and /etc/mail/virtusertable, but you shouldn't. 'postmaster' is an important
alias that afaicr is required by RFC's. If you're having problems with spam,
you should find some way of filtering it (procmail for eg).
adam