[OT] - Configure sendmail to drop incoming unknown user emails

Nathan Olson nate.olson at ndsu.edu
Thu May 20 03:04:02 IST 2010


In /etc/aliases
user: /dev/null

Then run 'newaliases'

Tada.

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 09:57:39PM -0300, Miguel Koren O'Brien de Lacy wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen;
> 
> I need to configure sendmail to silently drop emails received for
> unknown users on the server. In other words I don't want the sender to
> thinks that the email was received and then I want to put it in
> /dev/null. This is not for special needs for an internal application and
> not for any real interset email server. I searched around about how to
> do this and found some links that seem to imply that it's possible but
> no real solution. Can anyone point me to the right place for this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Miguel
> 
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