On Tue, February 21, 2006 10:38 am, Chip Old said:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:23 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> I have 2 issues with the compromise of an outgoing email alias for one
>> of my groups.
>>
>> First, how could someone get that address? I have ,nobody after
>> grpname-outgoing in the list alias.
>
> The addition of "nobody" to the alias ensures that "grpname-outgoing"
> doesn't appear in the message header, but you should examine a header to
> make sure it's working. If not, check how you have the aliase set up, or
> post all your aliases for "grpname" here so we can see them.
I have over 100 groups and none of the others have this problem. This is one
of the older groups and there was a time when I didn't have ,nobody set up.
>
>> Second, how can I recover so my group members who have poor spam filters
>> don't get the spam?
>
> Assuming you are using sendmail as the MTA, put something like this in
> your virtusertable:
>
> [email protected] error:nouser User unknown
>
> Substitute the actual listname and domain name, of course. Sendmail will
> then reject mail addressed to grpname-outgoing, but this will not stop the
> alias from working for resend.
Awesome! I can't believe I didn't think of that. Actually I can...
THANKS!
Karl
>
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