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Do not send "Postmaster notify..." emails sent to

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:29 pm
by divisionbyzero
Hello everyone,

I'm running CentOS 4.4 with Scalix 10 installed. I've been getting a lot of "Postmaster notify" emails sent to root. I understand these are notifications due to spammers trying to exploit our system.

There are other relevant emails sent to root such as those from Logwatch and we'd like to keep those so disabling logging for everything is not something we'd want.

Is there a way to disable such notifications at the Scalix level?

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:45 am
by florian
This is a sendmail configuration issue. Scalix does not send anything to root or postmaster, it will use the "error notification user".

If you check your sendmail aliases, you'll probably see something like

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Postmaster:      root


Obviously, this will need to be changed to a more useful setting (like through-away or send to another user)

-- Florian.