The /etc/mail/aliases file

Each address you list in your honepot file, must also exist as a valid local address. The way you make an address local for made-up addresses is to put an entry in your /etc/mail/aliases file. Consider the following list of honeypot addresses in slow.honey:


a@your.domain

helen@your.domain

gg@your.domain

In support of these, you could add the following alias entries to your aliases database:


a:      /dev/null

helen:  /dev/null

gg:     /dev/null

These addresses will be accepted as local by sendmail, and will be sent to the slowmilt milter for review. After review, it will be delivered to the black-hole file called /dev/null.