[BlueOnyx:08876] Re: forward email to /dev/null?

[Larry Smith]

Anyone tried putting either "nobody" or "/dev/null" in the mail forwarding
via the GUI ???  I know this works on other Linux boxes to simply bit-bucket
the incoming mail...

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Larry Smith
lesmith at ecsis.net

On Thu October 20 2011 10:51, Michael Stauber wrote:
> Hi Roy,
>
> > How can we setup those mailboxes to dump any inbound email so we aren’t
> > cleaning out the mailbox periodically due to rejections, etc.?
>
> Edit /etc/mail/virtusertable and find all aliasses related to that mailbox.
>
> An example could look like this:
>
> mstauber at 5107rmail.smd.net      mstauber
>
> You could handle the situation in two possible ways by changing the
> username part:
>
> Method a):
> mstauber at 5107rmail.smd.net      nobody
>
> Method b):
> mstauber at 5107rmail.smd.net      error:nouser No such user here
>
> Changing the username to "nobody" will accept the emails to the email
> address in question. But in /etc/mail/aliasses "nobody" is mapped to
> /dev/null. So the email will then be silently discarded.
>
> Changing the username to "error:nouser No such user here"  will instead
> refuse to accept the email and the sender gets an error message, telling
> him "No such user here". You could change the "No such user here" to
> something else, but it should be a really, really brief description without
> much in the way of using any non-alphabetical characters.
>
> Once you have edited /etc/mail/virtusertable run these two commands:
>
> makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable.db < /etc/mail/virtusertable
> /etc/init.d/sendmail restart
>
> But be prepared that these changes are not permanent. If you use the GUI to
> update these VSites email settings, or if you use the GUI to edit this
> users email details, then these changes will get reverted back to what they
> were before.