another sendmail e-mail question

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 04:02:33AM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 04:02:33 +0200
> From: Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de>
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: another sendmail e-mail question
> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> 
> Am So, den 01.08.2004 schrieb Joshua Andrews um 3:11:
> 
> > I would like to be able to prevent mail coming from outside that is 
> > addressed to root.
> 
> Either write a custom ruleset or if you use already a milter application
> like MimeDefang integrate the check in that tool. An example for the
> former is
> 
> http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/protected.html
> 
> and should be easily adjustable for protecting the root account.
> 

And since this is the root account it is likely that
you only want to see mail from localhost.   procmail
filters can catch all the expected mail and put the junk
in a pile or file.





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