Justin Hopper writes: > FUNCTION: The ability to blackhole an email address, so that any email > sent in to that address will be deleted. Useful when you don't want to > bounce the message, but just want it to disappear. > > SOLUTION: First, changed the dropdown box of email users when adding a > new alias to include a DELETE option. Selecting this option would > create a dotqmail file with the following: > > | /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' delete > > Not sure if this is the best way to blackhole email, or if routing it to > /dev/null is.
I don't know what vdelivermail does, but the standard way of getting qmail itself to delete mail is to create .qmail-whatever containing just a # in it. An empty file is ignored, but one containing only a comment causes the mail to be discarded. However, this is rather crude compared to the flexibility of sqwebmail's filters which allow you to set conditions for when mail gets deleted. -- Paul Allen Softflare Support
