OT - How to stop an account from receiving mail without deletingthe account?

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

     What that looks like is that it accepts the message, then immediately 
bounces it back. That's exactly what I don't want to happen. The reason is 
simple. As you probably know, spammers often use totally bogus addresses. So 
I bounce the message, and it turns out the original sender's address is also 
invalid. That bounced bounce has to go somewhere, and that somewhere just 
happens to be the Postmaster account I think it is, which is aliased to a 
real account. So if there's a way to not accept the message in the first 
place, or to possibly just accept it and then destroy it, I'd love to know. 
I tried making /var/mail/mail a simlink to /dev/null, but that didn't last.
Thanks for any help.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kyle" <kyle4jesus at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: OT - How to stop an account from receiving mail without 
deletingthe account?


> Hi,
> Could this work for you? Not sure, since I found it via Google looking 
> for:
> procmailrc bounce message
> but it's worth a shot.
> http://www.it.ca/software/procmail-bounce
> I think it goes in a .procmailrc in the home directory for the account 
> whose mail you want to bounce. Of course, you will probably need to modify 
> it, but it looks like it should do the job you want after your tweaks.
>
> Kyle
>
> -- 
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> I live only to serve You
>  Each and every day.
> --Kyle
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