Can I safely delete the main POP account?

[mvtimes]

For a domain, I have the two dozen or so actual email addresses, but also the "[email protected]" POP account created when the site was added in DirectAdmin.

Is it safe to delete this email account ([email protected]) which is not used and just receives spam? My concerns are that it is the same name as the domain's main user/admin and I'm worried that deleting it from the POP list will adversely effect something else. I'd doubt that this list is connected to the actual users list, but want to be sure.

Thank you for any advice.

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

There is no way to delete it. Create a .forward file and rote all incoming emails to :blackhole: or :fail:

 

[mvtimes]

Thank you.

I couldn't find any documentation about using .forward with :fail, just other email addresses. Going by what you had typed, I simply added a .forward file to /home/username with just

:fail:

Is that correct? It does seem to be working.

My one question is, does this happen before the message is processed by SpamAssassin, so I no longer have to worry about the server load of these spam messages?

Thanks again.

 

[zEitEr]

You should trace it in your exim logs, if you want to find out how does it get treated. I've never tested this moment.

 

[mvtimes]

For anyone else that may come across this, using the .forward file wasn't working. It didn't reject the email during the SMTP negotiation, which resulted in a bounce instead, something we're trying to avoid due to backscatter.

What did work was adding another rule to the check recipient ACL in exim.conf

  # Deny root account email
    deny message = No such recipient here
         recipients = /etc/virtual/recipients_deny

Now when trying to email [email protected], which is on the /etc/virtual/recipients_deny list, it fails at the SMTP negotiation like we wanted.