Hard coded email addresses.

[hkphooey]

Hi.

It seems that certain email addresses are automatically set to forward to root. Examples are support@mymailserver.com, webmaster@mymailserver.com.

I didn't set these up and in fact I'd rather reject them with a non-delivery message than receive them in my root inbox. The reason is of course that these are almost always spam, and spammers are just appending likely email addresses in front of the @mymailserver.com

(As a side-note I can't imagine why they think that Unix admins would want Viagara or fall for such pallid spam)

Anyway, does anyone know where these are set up, so that I can bounce the emails instead of receiving them. I'm running Centos 4.4 and Scalix 11.0.1 with sendmail. Let me know if you need any other details.

[Valerion]

Have a look in /etc/aliases, this defines a few system-wide defaults. Support and webmaster should be in there.

Just put a # in front of the relevant line and run newaliases to rebuild the hash version. Maybe (to be on the safe side) restart sendmail as well.

[hkphooey]

Very cool. Thanks. I knew it had to be something simple.