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...
-- Larry Smith lesm...@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: > > mstau...@5107rmail.smd.net mstauber > > You could handle the situation in two possible ways by changing the > username part: > > Method a): > mstau...@5107rmail.smd.net nobody > > Method b): > mstau...@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. _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx