First of all does anyone else think it strange that directAdmin creates the email account "[email protected]" for every domain? Why would anyone think they needed to create such a feature and why would they not allow the admin to delete this address. I find it very intrusive, useless and bothersome. How many spam messages do you get at this "admin" address on every domain? I get thousands and thousands!! I do not use this address, never have and never will for this very reason. I have created another address for admin purposes and would like to delete this "admin" address but cannot figure out how to do so. If I cannot does anyone have a solution to avoiding all the spam that gets sent to every "admin" address around the world?
How to delete the "admin" email address"
- Thread starter Boballoo
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The email address is created by the Operating System, DirectAdmin does not create it and it can not be deleted.
You can solve the spam problem by routing all email to that account by routing it to blackhole.
Or you can just also fail it depending on how you want to handle it.
This may be of help:
http://directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=849&highlight=blackhole
You can solve the spam problem by routing all email to that account by routing it to blackhole.
Or you can just also fail it depending on how you want to handle it.
This may be of help:
http://directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=849&highlight=blackhole
jmstacey said:
I am not about to disagree but (here comes the disagreeable part) I have used several different servers and many different admin apps and have never had any of them ever create an email address automatically. Why would the OS (Linux Red Hat) create a new email address like this? I don't see the connection?
Thank you for the other useful information. That helped greatly and the problem is solved.
nobaloney
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When DirectAdmin installs itself it creates an admin user for your server so you and DirectAdmin can find the username in /etc/passwd and in /etc/shadow (Linux) for a successful login.
This may become important if you disable root ssh logins as you should for security.
By default all mailserver installs accept email for all usernames. That's the way linux and unix work.
On our DirectAdmin installs we either create blackhole fails, no-such-user fails, or forwards to a working email address, for all usernames which otherwise may get mail.
The thread Jon references contains information from DirectAdmin support as to one way to fix the problem.
Jeff
This may become important if you disable root ssh logins as you should for security.
By default all mailserver installs accept email for all usernames. That's the way linux and unix work.
On our DirectAdmin installs we either create blackhole fails, no-such-user fails, or forwards to a working email address, for all usernames which otherwise may get mail.
The thread Jon references contains information from DirectAdmin support as to one way to fix the problem.
Jeff