[OT] sendmail virtusertable question

[Ron Hahn (Senior Analyst)]

Lads,

Haven't been able to find a working answer elsewhere so I thought I'd try
some of the sendmail gurus here..

I've been getting a lot of spam to various addresses with the LHS ending in
"something";  i.e. marysomething at domain.name johnsomething at domain.name etc..
I've tried unsuccessfully to put in a spamtrap address in my virtusertable
like

*+something at domain.name         aa-spamtrap
*something at domain.name          aa-spamtrap

so that any of these bogus names get scanned and delivered to a local
account where I deal with them.  Each time I run a test address through
sendmail -bt I still end up with the "user unknown" status.

I do not want a catchall address such as *@domain.name, just a catchall for
usernames ending in a certain string *string at domain.name

Has anyone on the list any suggestions and/or answers to this problem?

Thanks,

Ron
--
Ron Hahn, Senior Analyst
Management Services Department
Southern Health Board
Aras Slainte, Ground Floor
Dennehy's Cross,
Cork, Ireland
Tel. +353 (0)21-492-3669



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