> On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 07:53:17AM -0700, Nick White wrote: >> I have a quick sendmail question. A server sits between our internal >> mail server, and the external world that acts as a mail receiver and >> relay box. We do this using the mailertable file. So any mail for >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets forwarded to the internal mail server. >> >> An employee has been gone for over a year now, and I am seeing TONS of >> crap keep coming through for him, and the server is sending back out >> NDRs for each failed attempt. >> >> How can I block messages that come through for him, discarding them >> silently without sending NDRs? > > I'm not sure you can, but I'm resaonably sure that this would violate > the RFCs. You're asking an RFC-compliant mailserver to accept mail and > then quietly drop it into the bit bucket without notifying the sender? > Nasty, nasty... > > One way to approach this would be to accept the mail but write a > procmail rule that drops the e-mail into dev/null. > I believe that simply his will do it but I have not tested it... > > :0 > /dev/null > > -- > Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
While that will do it you can save the time of processing the mail by just including the problem name in sendmail's access database with a DROP action. Any incoming mail to that person is immediately dropped into the bit bucket. No notification is sent to the sender. Gerry -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
