uucp@example.com

[Louis Zirkel]

Stuart Jansen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 09:48 -0600, Louis Zirkel wrote:
>   
>> UUCP stands for Unix-to-Unix Copy and it's a store and forward type of 
>> system that was used back before there was an always on type internet 
>> with tcp/ip.  There were routing tables, similar to with tcp/ip which 
>> would define how information could be routed through the network.  It 
>> was heavily used for email and usenet news, as well as file transfers.  
>> The spam vector your seeing is just a way to try and using any historic 
>> means necessary to gain traction with your box.
>>     
>
> In other words, unless you like to dabble in ancient technologies for
> fun, you can just disable the uucp email account. Chances are, it's
> probably defined in /etc/aliases so you can just remove it then run
> newaliases to update the alias database.
Pretty much, yeah.