qmail: setting up alias to go to /dev/null?

m3kgt · 11-18-2003, 02:04 PM

I am trying to find a way to have all e-mail sent to a particular address to automatically be sent back or deleted. Either by sending it to /dev/null or by returning it to sender.

will simply creating a file called .qmail-address_to_block and putting a line in there that says /dev/null work?

i.e.

the .qmail-spam file will contain a line that says

/dev/null

so anything addressed to spam will go to /dev/null? Will that work? If not, how can I do this? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Crashed_Again · 11-18-2003, 03:07 PM

hmmmm...are you getting spammed like crazy? lol. Off the top of my head I do not know how you would automatically send all mail sent to the user spam to /dev/null. You could however create an alias for this user and then setup a cron job to delete all of that users email once a night or something.

m3kgt · 11-18-2003, 03:18 PM

Yeah, a client of ours is getting a lot of spam on one perticular e-mail address that they do not use. I like your idea though. I will create one account made solely for the purpose of collecting trash e-mail, then have it cleared out nightly in a cron job. Good thinking. Thanks!

Crashed_Again · 11-18-2003, 03:47 PM

Wow somebody actually like one of my ideas. I better bookmark this thread.

m3kgt · 11-18-2003, 03:50 PM

The thing I like about your ideas is that I can use the one user account to catch all the crap e-mail from any of the domains we host. I just have to specify that local account int he .qmail- file. It'll be my own blackhole e-mail account.

Thanks agian.