[BlueOnyx:07580] Re: Deleting incoming mail to a no-reply address

[Larry Smith]

On Fri July 1 2011 18:00, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet wrote:
> Richard Morgan wrote:
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > We send message out using no-reply at domain.com
> > <mailto:no-reply at domain.com> and it works fine.
> >
> > However, when someone ignores the warnings and still clicks reply they
> > gather up in an unattended mailbox.  No problems there, but it would be
> > nice to just delete them.  Any ideas how this is done without breaking
> > anything else.
>
> One option:  insert a cron job to do
> rm -rf /home/sites/SITENAME.TLD/users/USER/mbox
>
> > Also, would it be possible to send a reply at the same time - vacation
> > messaging is enabled, which seems to do the trick.  Would this keep
> > working?
>
> No reason it shouldn't.

Second option, manually create and alias called "discard" directed
to /dev/null 

> discard:                "/dev/null"


Then do a .forward on the no-reply to discard and it will be bit-bucketed.
I do this regularly and it works like a champ.

-- 
Larry Smith
lesmith at ecsis.net