Re: Non-member submissions being accepted by lists.

At 12:42 PM 4/6/06, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
>Recently, we have discovered that our mailing lists are accepting posts
>from non-subscribers if they are sent to our server in the form:
>
>[email protected]_name
>
>instead of
>
>[email protected]_name


You can block outside email to that address without affecting the operation 
of your list.  If your MTA is sendmail, you should add this entry to 
virtusertable:

[email protected]_name        error:nouser User unknown

I'm not *why* this works, but it does.

Frank