[BlueOnyx:08882] Re: forward email to /dev/null?

[Hans Draaisma - Netvictory B.V.]

Another approach but maybe not what you are looking for...

The copier or printer only has to sent-out mail and mail going to it's "from" address needs to be discarded right?

Why then just not give the printer or other device an e-mailadress that is not there (configured in the BO interface) in the first place. (printer01 at domainname.com or whatever)
If your BO server also is the SMTP server for the device than this is somewhat tricky because it will check originating e-mailadress under a domain that it's running locally.


regards,

Hans Draaisma
Netvictory B.V.

On 20 okt 2011, at 18:50, Dan Porter wrote:

> Would it be possible to use the GUI and just forward all mail for the user to "nobody"  rather than going into the virtusertable? 
> 
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------- 
> From: Michael Stauber <mstauber at blueonyx.it> 
> To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it> 
> Sent: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:51:59 +0200 
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:08875] Re: forward email to /dev/null? 
> 
> > 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. 
> > 
> > -- 
> > With best regards 
> > 
> > Michael Stauber 
> > 
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