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Default email address in sendmail?



Robert L Krawitz wrote:

> I could think of a couple of reasons:
> 
> 1) The person wants to actually see all misaddressed mail, just for
>    safety's sake.
> 
> 2) Rather than giving any clue at all to spammers about the existence
>    or otherwise of the domain, he wants to capture inbound spam and
>    feed it to a filter.
> 
> 3) He's running a honeypot.

4) All of the emails will be processed by a program, which will perform
different actions based on the username, ditching invalid addresses as
needed.

Further research shows I can probably do what I want with the
virtusertable file, where I can specify

@myincomingdomain.com   mailprocessor at myotherdomain.com




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