Bill Horne wrote: > I just noticed that my new server is accepting mail for "nobody". > Which is probably not a good thing. ;-)
You probably want to alias nobody to root or your designated admin user, if it is not already, so you can catch error messages that might end up there. I'm assuming your concern is with respect to external senders trying to reach nobody. You probably don't want them emailing root either. See: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~jnw/SysAdminsp01/Lectures/postfix-html/faq.html#bogus That explanation falls a bit short of spelling out the specifics. I don't know what the canonical recommended solution is for setting up a mapping table for allowing only a subset of local users to receive mail from external senders. (I normally use Postfix either with trivial, default setups that relay mail to a smart host, or with virtual domains and maps, where local users are not relevant.) The above would suggest altering the local_recipient_maps parameter, but it's quite possible that the preferred solution is to employ virtual domains, and have your local machine be identified as something different from what your machine is publicly known as. That way you can set up a rule to accept mail for users in /etc/passwd and /etc/aliases only from the localhost, and for everything else consult a virtual map. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA "Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting." http://www.theperlshop.com/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss