I have a user who was getting constantly spammed so I deleted their email account but it's still coming in and trying to get delivered, how do drop all email for a specific email address?

i'm running exim / spamassasin / iptables if that helps

/etc/alias

username > /dev/null

@DebianUser

So does this mean you've given up on trying to deal with the fact that your machine has been compromised?

/etc/alias doesn't exist I'm also running directadmin



HangDog42 the compromised was removed and also a fresh os install was done.

And have you taken appropriate steps to ensure that you won't become re-compromised? By appropriate steps I don't mean changing passwords.

Your email program is attempting to deliver mail to a NON-EXISTENT user. You either have a misconfiguration in your exim setup or your system isn't as clean as you think it is. The appropriate response from your MTA would be to send an error code with a 500 level response. You will still get spam for this user account for a long time, but most MTAs will stop trying to deliver a particular message with this type of response.