FW: [cobalt-users] catch-all address, but kick some back

["Jolley, Carl" <Carl.Jolley@xxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jolley, Carl
To: 'jale@xxxxxxxxxx '
Sent: 9/1/02 1:34 PM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] catch-all address, but kick some back

-----Original Message-----
From: jale@xxxxxxxxxx
To: Cobalt Users List
Sent: 9/1/02 10:11 AM
Subject: [cobalt-users] catch-all address, but kick some back

Like most of you, I get WAY too much SPAM. And one of the big culprits
is 
having a catch-all address. But I need to use them; I have addresses for

every company I deal with so I know who sold my name, so far Gateway and
US 
Robotics have been the biggest culprits.

Is there a way to keep my catch-all addresses, but put in some addresses

that will get rejected as no such recipient? That will eliminate
probably 
more than 1/2 the SPAM I get (about 150/day). My delete key is 
warrrrrrnnnnnnn out.
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In the /etc/virtusertable prior to the catch-all definition,
just put the addresses you want caught and give them an action of:
REJECT no such user

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Sorry, mind distortion.

Actually, the REJECT action is configured in the
/etc/mail/access table.

However, my virtusertable is configured to have an entry
for every valid local account, including such accounts as
"postmaster","nobody", "sys", "root" and MAILER-DAEMON. For
these types of "accounts, there's an entry for every virtual
domain. Then the catch all for each virtual domain is
configured as:

@thedomain.com     error:nouser No such user here