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Article #3157Re: mail to /dev/null
From: Jos Vos
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1989 07:28
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1989 07:28
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In article <3244@xyzzy.UUCP> clegg@dg-rtp.dg.com (Alan Clegg) writes: >Does anybody have any idea what I can do to make sure mail to /dev/null goes >away? Just put in the /usr/lib/aliases file a line with nobody: /dev/null and run "newaliases". It works fine. What has the sendmail.cf file you mentioned to do with that? >Even a better question... Is it legal to alias somebody to /dev/null? It's up to you to decide what to do with your mail. I use "nobody" as a test address. But you shouldn't forward "postmaster" to /dev/null, please! -- -- ###### Jos Vos ###### Internet jos@idca.tds.philips.nl ###### -- ###### ###### UUCP ...!mcvax!philapd!jos ######
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!philapd!ssp15!jos From: jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: mail to /dev/null Message-ID: <919@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl> Date: 6 Feb 89 07:28:04 GMT References: <3244@xyzzy.UUCP> Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands Lines: 19