Deleting messages before scanning

[Paul]

I tried using virtusertable.  Added an entry like this:

name at domain.com  error:nouser No such user here

and then did:

/usr/bin/makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable < /etc/mail/virtusertable

and restarted MailScanner.

which works fine on my RAQ3, ie, messages for name at domain.com are rejected
before MailScanner kicks in, but had no effect on my "pure" RH 7.3 box.
I've also tried it on another box running RH 8  and it works fine.

Any ideas why?  The virtusertable was empty before I added the entry, but
sendmail.cf has:

#####  $Id: virtusertable.m4,v 8.16 1999/07/22 17:55:36 gshapiro Exp $
#####
Kvirtuser hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable.db

so from my limited knowledge I thought it was enabled.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Spicer, Kevin" <Kevin.Spicer at BMRB.CO.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: Deleting messages before scanning


Paul wrote:
> Bit OT this one, but I have quite a lot of spam coming in to ancient
> addresses.  Is it possible to delete such messages before MailScanner
> passes them to SpamAssassin and wastes system resources?

I block such addresses using sendmail's access database.