/Thats the problem. We use a Barracuda and it throws away emails from
non-existent mailboxes.
I also considered lumping them all under a d0_not_reply address, but
alas: our copiers email us to say we need to feed them (order more
toner) and when somebody screws up we need to know where it came from.
I look forward to Michael's tweak to add a check box to the GUI to black
hole email. (although some days I might be tempted to use it on my own
mailbox)
/On 10/20/2011 1:18 PM, Hans Draaisma - Netvictory B.V. wrote:
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.
(printe...@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<mstau...@blueonyx.it>
To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List<blueonyx@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:
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.
--
With best regards
Michael Stauber
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