Question regarding spam wrt general user names

[Dan Carl]

not sure exactly wht your asking but if the message is tagged as{?SPAM}
and you don't want it to be delivered use spam.action.rules like this.
To:             mail@*          delete
To:             adm@*           delete
To:             webmaster@*     delete
To:             info@*          delete
To:             root@*          delete
Look in your rules directory for examples.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Jourard" <cgi at bytesinteractive.com>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 9:56 AM
Subject: Question regarding spam wrt general user names


> Hi,
>
> I hope this question is relevant to this list. If not pls pt me to
> another list.
>
> I have a small server for web hosting and I have been using MailScanner
> for a while to handle the spam assassin and the
> virus scanners.  I'm very pleased.
>
> I have spam which is directed to users such as root, mail uucp etc. wrt
> any domain.  Because the e-mail address does not exist it is directed to
> root and eventually to me.
If it your own server and your running linux these addresses are list in
your /etc/aliases file

> Is is possible through mailscanner somehow to reject e-mail from
> root at somedomain1.com, root at somedomain2.com ...,
> mail at somedomain1.com , mail at somedomain2.com, ... etc.
not a good idea to just reject all email to these.
you are actually required to have postmaster at somedomain.com
and suppose to accpet mail to abuse at somedomain.com


> Thank-you in advance.
>
> David J.
>
>
>
>
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