[TriLUG] best method of auto mail deletion?

[Andrew Perrin]

My solution has been to create the user, then do the following:

.forward:
|/usr/bin/procmail

.procmailrc:
DEFAULT=/dev/null
LOGFILE=procmail.log


(the LOGFILE entry just lets you check, in retrospect, that a message was
received and dumped).



If you really just want to dump everything, you could always do:
ln -s /var/spool/mail/dontbotherme /dev/null

There's probably a way to do it using /etc/aliases too but I don't know
it.

ap

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Greg Brown wrote:

> Hey all.  I have created a mailbox on my work Linux box (RH 7.1) which I'd
> like to use as a black-hole mailbox.  I simply want to delete every message
> that arrives at dontbotherme at mysytem.workdomain.com.  Any ideas on the best
> way to do this?
> 
> Greg
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