Silently discard emails from a domain/ip

Hello,

If they are sending emails to non-existent accounts on a domain, then you can change the default address to :blackhole: rather than :fail: where :blackhole: simply silently discards the emails rather than bouncing them back. The issue with :blackhole: is that it increases the processing needed for the emails, since the server must actually process that email to discard it. The :fail: option actually rejects it without processing as a bounce back to the sender. Most spammers are either spoofing or aren't accepting bounce mail back to their domain, so bouncing an email back to them doesn't really do much. I'd be amazed at any spammer accepting such bounces, since it makes a lot more sense to spoof or not accept return email failures if you are spamming people.

Anyway, if you really want to change to :blackhole:, you can change any set to :fail: to :blackhole: in root SSH using this command:

Code:

replace fail blackhole -- /etc/valiases/*

Thanks.