On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 05:25, Paul L. Allen wrote: > 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.
Ah yes, I had forgotten that qmail will dump email if it sees a # sign in a dotqmail file. I was never sure if this was a desired effect or not, so I've never used it. If this is the way it is supposed to work, then yes, I should change the text string to just a single '#' character, which would be all the easier to write and read back in to check for. Any other comments or ideas about these features? -- Justin Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
