R Rulesets( How to disable a mail to a user before scanning)

[Remco Barendse]

I have the same problem.

For some reason mail sent to webmaster@ or postmaster@ never ever gets
deleted. It is marked as spam, but a spam action to delete it never works
it seems.

I haven't tried it yet but maybe a solution to that is create an alias in
your /etc/aliases

getlost:          /dev/null

and make the spam action for the webmaster at whatever forward getlost


On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Amin, Harish wrote:

> I receive about 50 messages to a unknown user on my SMTP server
> and I as a postmaster receive all the messages back
> I tried the rules
>
> # more spam.actions.rules
> To:     webmaster at www.dpi.state.wi.us    delete
>
>
> # more spam.blacklist.rules
> #To:     /^$/    yes
> To:     webmaster at www.dpi.state.wi.us   yes
>
> But I still keep getting it
>
>
>
> The original message was received at Tue, 8 Jul 2003 12:08:05 -0500 (CDT)
> from doagw01.doa.state.wi.us [165.189.88.161]
>
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <'webmaster at www.dpi.state.wi.us>
>     (reason: 553 5.3.5 system config error)
>
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 553 5.3.5 www.dpi.state.wi.us. config error: mail loops back to me (MX
> problem?)
> 554 5.3.5 Local configuration error
>
> AM I doing something wrong here...
> I am running MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.22-4 on SUn Solaris
> running sendmail
> Any Help will be appreciated
> Thanx
> Harish
>