OT - How to stop an account from receiving mail withoutdeletingthe account?

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

You can always ask procmail to deliver it to /dev/null


On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:27:12PM -0400, James Homuth wrote:
> Why not just an alias entry?
> 
> In /etc/aliases, do:
> Mail: /dev/null
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Jayson Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 3:24 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: OT - How to stop an account from receiving mail
> withoutdeletingthe account?
> 
> 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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