[CentOS] Sendmail forwarding external email sent to root

Thu Apr 16 04:02:49 UTC 2009
Benjamin Smith <lists at benjamindsmith.com>

Three ideas come to mind: 

1)  announce a different public name than the local machine name. 

	A) EG: machine name:donttellanyone.theservername.com
		public (DNS) name: www.theservername.com

	B) Then set up virtusertable entry routing
	root at donttellanyone.theservername.come to your email address.

	C) edit /etc/aliases so that "root: | /dev/null "

2) start using greylisting! Milter-greylist works well w/sendmail for light-
medium load machines. =) 

3) Turn off inbound email on port 25, if you can. 

On Wednesday 15 April 2009 18:57:57 Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Hello:
>
> On a CentOS5 machine I set up for a client, in /etc/aliases,
> I set root's mail to forward to my email address so I can
> get notices from cron, etc.
>
> Unfortunately, I am now getting a lot of spam which is
> sent to root at theservername.com
>
> How can I tell sendmail to not accept external email to
> root?
>
> I searched the Internet and found some horribly convoluted
> solutions.  There has to be a simple way to do this, like
> putting a line in sendmail.mc or something.
>
> Anyone know a good solution?
>
> Thanks
> 	Neil
>
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