[lug] Filtering mail sent to root

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 07:24:25AM -0600, Bill Thoen wrote:
>So what's the best way to dump any mail that originated from outside the
>box, but keep the internal messages?

It depends on the mail server you're using.  In qmail, you can list the
root address in "badrcptto", which tells the SMTP server to reject
incoming e-mail to that account, but does not impact local delivery to
root.

However, setting up greylisting is going to help all of your accounts.

Sean
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