Bulk change default address for all existing accounts

[SimpleTechGuy]

Wanting to temporarily change the default address for all accounts to :blackhole in order to slow down a dictionary attack on my servers. I know I can go into each accounts cpanel and manually change the default address there, but looking for a way to do this for all accounts at once.

Thanks,

 

[SimpleTechGuy]

I found the following post from several years ago, but it's not working. I'm getting -bash: replace: command not found

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Hi i want to ask opinions about the Root email i see in all my accounts. By default i noticed that all e-mails that are going to [email protected] are going inside this "Root" of the domain. 1) My first question is that if i want to stop such function for all domains how can i do it...

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[SimpleTechGuy]

Also found this post from a couple of years ago but the OP never provided a script. Honestly it would be easier for me to do them manually that trying to figure out how to write a script. Hoping there might be an easier way since 2 years ago.

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Hi, I've got several subdomains created for a main domain like this: sb1.company.com sb2.company.com sb3.company.com I also have emails created for each subdomain: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] I'd like to set each email as a default address for each...

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[vanessa]

maybe just delete and append the line. here's a couple commands:

sed '/^*:/d' -i /etc/valiases/*
sed '1 a*: :blackhole:' -i /etc/valiases/*

 

[SimpleTechGuy]

Thank you @vanessa, I already went the manual route, but I'll try this when I get ready to switch back to :fail.