Re: [CentOS] Sendmail forwarding external email sent to root

Neil Aggarwal wrote on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:54:13 -0500:

I guess that facility just does not exist in sendmail.

what facility? Everything Benjamin explained is there.

I'm not getting any email to root@.... on my servers. I suggest you try to find out where you might have exposed it. Spammers try to avoid sending to root. Or, are you sure the mail is *really* sent to root and not to an address aliased to root? Lots of users (basically all users that were created for use by a daemon) on the machine are aliased to root.

If it's really spam straight to "root@domain" a simple "root@domain nouser" in virtusertable or access.db should usually solve the problem as cron rather sends to "root" or "root@localhost".

Kai