Spam on standard RFC2142 email aliases [Solved]

BoBoeBoe · n00b Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 69

I receive a lot of email on the standard email aliases on my system.

Can I just delete the aliases in the section "General redirections ..." and the section "Standard RFC2142 aliases" preventing spam of is there a reason to keep these aliases?

Furthermore there is a alias called decode should I enable it? and is there a process that sends mail to this alias?

Are there any other tips and tricks apart from installing the spam filter as described in:

magic919 · Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:56 am Post subject:

The reason for keeping them would be to remain RFC compliant. That's your call. If you run a mailserver then it's only polite to keep postmaster open. You could drop webmaster if you don't run such a server, for example.

You can't be on the net in 2006 and not run some anti-UCE measures.

BoBoeBoe · n00b Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 69

I've disabled these RFC2142 mail accounts and I havent noticed anything that goes wrong.

Only the amount of spam that can be delivered succesfully drops dramatically!