I use uucp to get some email,
and this allows quite a lot of spam sent to random users at my address.
When this happens (dozens of times each day)
the mailer-daemon sends email to root.
I see there is a sendmail option to re-direct all email to non-existent users
to a specified user, and I'm thinking of sending all this email to "nobody",
and then running a cron job to delete all nobody's email.
[Thinks: Is a user with "nologin" shell allowed to receive email?]
But is there any sendmail setting which will directly delete such email,
or send it to /dev/null?
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