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Re: Rejecting External Mail to "root'

From: Andreas Winkelmann (mlawinkelmann.de)
Date: Sat Oct 22 2005 - 09:44:39 CDT


Am Saturday 22 October 2005 16:36 schrieb Rich Shepard:

> As far as I know, there should never be a situation in which mail should
> be sent to 'root' by anyone or any daemon external to 'mynetworks.' Is this
> correct?
>
> If so, what would be the appropriate way to block it?

No, you should redirect Mails to root to another "normal" user. How, depends
on your Configuration. Normal a alias-Entry will do it.

root: normaluser

"root" should not use a MailClient and read Mail.

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        Andreas