Re: Mail sent to users that don't read mail?

Knute Johnson <knute2024@585ranch.com> writes:

I've gotten some email to some odd/system users on my server, dovecot,
smmsp, list, www-data and _apt for example.  The emails are all
spam. The mail ends up creating a file in /var/mail for that user.  Is
there a way to stop those users from accepting mail?  Other than just
listing them in the /etc/mail/access file?  All of the users have UIDs
less than mine which is 1000.  Any way to restrict mail to users with
a UID less than 1000?  Or any other suggestions?

I usually put system users into /etc/mail/aliases. Along with other
real/virtual accounts which aren't used for direct mailbox access.
Some of these aliases are forwarded to mail reading accounts.  Others
are simply redirected to /dev/null.  YMMV

You could obviously also do that with a ~/.forward file for the real
users, but my personal preference is to collect this into a single
alias db.



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