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Subject: Re: alias question
From: Will Bryant <will @ core-dev . co . nz>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 01:10:34 +1300
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>What I have found is, only the user listed in the access file can post to
>the mailing list, however if someone sends to listusers-list alias then
>everyone in the mailing list gets a copy, it's like the list never looks at
>the listuser.txt file.
I think you just need the stuff from 
http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/majordomo-faq.html#3.6

Sendmail allows you to rewrite incoming and outgoing addresses. The one 
that handles incoming is virtualusertable.text. For a list called test with 
the test-outgoing alias, I put the following into my virtualusertable.text 
file and remade the db with the appropriate command:

test-outgoing@mydomain.com      error:nouser User unknown

Sendmail can still get to the alias and expand it into the list of 
recipients. However, any mail that appears at port 25 marked for 
test-outgoing@mydomain.com will bounce back with "User unknown".
[..]

Basically you make it so that that -list address only works from within 
your host.

This can (and perhaps should) be used in conjunction with renaming it as 
Dan suggests (which is kinda security through obscurity).

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