Re: [webmin-l] Email Question

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 17/Nov/2006 16:46 John Hinton wrote ..
> Am I right in assuming that if I set an email alias in Virtualmin to 
> bounce, that it is in fact a bounce and not a reject? If so, are there
> any suggestions on setting up rejects on particular addresses?
> 
> The problem is spammers have started using what up until now were 
> 'sacred' email addresses. System addresses. Webmaster, root, mail, uucp,
> and on and on. I really would rather reject them instead of allowing 
> them to come in, get processed through SpamAssassin (the resource hog)
> in particular before they get dumped to /dev/null.. or worse, wind up in
> my inbox as I do receive webmaster, postmaster, abuse and root. Root 
> gets a lot dumped to it.

If you setup an alias to bounce email, it will be applied before any 
spam filtering. SpamAssassin only gets run on email delivered to local
mailboxes, which won't happen here..

 - Jamie