[TriLUG] best method of - SOLVED

[Greg Brown]

Hey all.  Thanks to everyone who helped out with my auto mail deletion 
problem.  Here's how it worked out:

1. the ln -s /dev/null /var..../dontbotherme method
This worked great up until I rebooted the machine at which point the 
symbolic link /var.../dontbotherme -> /dev/null magically became
/var..../BOGUS.dontbotherme.MT?? (I can't remember the last two 
letters).  Anyway, at that point, once the dontbotherme user received 
e-mail
no longer deleted itself because of the symbolic name change.  Weird.

2. the alias method
This didn't work for me either (probably do the fact that I never had a 
chance to read the man page thanks to people bothering me non-stop).

3. the .forward | to procmail method
This worked.  And it continues to work.  New mail that arrives for 
dontbotherme is magically deleted.

Thanks everyone!

Greg

On Friday, Jan 10, 2003, at 12:59 America/New_York, Mike Johnson wrote:

> Greg Brown [gregbrown at mindspring.com] wrote:
>> Hey all.  I have created a mailbox on my work Linux box (RH 7.1) 
>> which I'd
>> like to use as a black-hole mailbox.  I simply want to delete every 
>> message
>> that arrives at dontbotherme at mysytem.workdomain.com.  Any ideas on 
>> the best
>> way to do this?
>
> Yeah, step one is to delete the mailbox.  Then, add an alias (depending
> on your MTA) like thus:
> dontbotherme: /dev/null
>
> Add the new aliaes (newaliases) and off you go.
>
> Mike
> -- 
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