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3 total messages Started by Alan Clegg Fri, 03 Feb 1989 15:10

#3142

Author: Alan Clegg
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1989 15:10

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I am having trouble with an alias on our system... one user is aliased to
/dev/null...  I suppose this should send his mail into the twilight zone, 
but I can't get my sendmail.cf to understand that.

Does anybody have any idea what I can do to make sure mail to /dev/null goes
away?

Even a better question... Is it legal to alias somebody to /dev/null?

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Re: mail to /dev/null

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Author: Jos Vos
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!

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Re: mail to /dev/null

#3165

Author: Richard Childers
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 1989 18:33

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clegg@dg-rtp.dg.com (Alan Clegg) writes:

>I am having trouble with an alias on our system... one user is aliased to
>/dev/null...  I suppose this should send his mail into the twilight zone, 
>but I can't get my sendmail.cf to understand that.

What kind of system ? And what happens when you try ?

>Even a better question... Is it legal to alias somebody to /dev/null?

It is with the machines I work with, VAXen running 4.3, and Suns. I think
it's set up like this, though :

		nobody:		/dev/null
			.
			.
			.
		somebody:	nobody

Of course, make sure the file exists, and the permissions are correct, and
that the filesystem is mounted read-write, and a few other things.

>        Alan Clegg                              //-n-\\
>                                        _____---=======---_____
>     clegg@dg-rtp.dg.com            ====____\   /.. ..\   /____====
>  ...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!clegg        //         ---\__O__/---         \\

-- richard



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