Alex, thanks for the response. I am hosting a number of sites here. I
want to take everything such as for example, site1.com and site2.com.
Every email that gets sent to them for any reason (email@hidden,
email@hidden - whatever) needs to go to the proverbial trash compactor
with no one but Luke Skywalker to ever see it again.
This applies to anything and everything incoming, based on the domain
extension @site1.com so to speak.
I don't want to fill up a spot on the system with files. It looks like I
was on the right path, /dev/null appears to be where I would send it to.
So how do I do this? Just vi /etc/aliases and put in an entry such as
@site1.com /dev/null
@site2.com /dev/null
???
Thanks,
Marc
Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
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09/28/07 05:46 PM
Please respond to OSXS
To: OSXS <email@hidden>
cc:
Subject: Re: email forwarding
On 28/09/07 18:54, Marc L Maxwell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to forward all emails from certain web site domains to a place on
> the system that will not fill up with space and will not ever have to be
> looked at again. Can I just do entries in /etc/aliases that send them to
> /dev/null? /dev/urandom? Is there a preferred place to send mail to that
> I won't have to manage?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marc
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to forward all emails from certain web site domains to a place on
> the system that will not fill up with space and will not ever have to be
> looked at again. Can I just do entries in /etc/aliases that send them
to
> /dev/null? /dev/urandom? Is there a preferred place to send mail to
that
> I won't have to manage?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marc
Ouch! I feared some kind of recursive email: an email that contains
itself that contains itself that...
Having a look at the man page for aliases(5), which is part of the
Postfix system, one has:
/file/name
Mail is appended to /file/name. See local(8) for
details of
delivery to file. Delivery is not limited to regular
files.
For example, to dispose of unwanted mail, deflect
it to
/dev/null.
Now, the aliases table is related to mail recipients, not to mail
senders; it allows you to say that emails for user "thatguy" are to be
trashed, not to say that emails from "thisguy" are to be trashed.
So, could you be more precise about "certain web sites domains"?
Because the solution may heavily depend on that.
Axel
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Alex, thanks for the response. I am hosting a number of sites here. I
want to take everything such as for example, site1.com and site2.com.
Every email that gets sent to them for any reason (email@hidden,
email@hidden - whatever) needs to go to the proverbial trash compactor
with no one but Luke Skywalker to ever see it again.
This applies to anything and everything incoming, based on the domain
extension @site1.com so to speak.
I don't want to fill up a spot on the system with files. It looks like I
was on the right path, /dev/null appears to be where I would send it to.
So how do I do this? Just vi /etc/aliases and put in an entry such as
@site1.com /dev/null
@site2.com /dev/null
???
Thanks,
Marc
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On 28/09/07 18:54, Marc L Maxwell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to forward all emails from certain web site domains to a place on
> the system that will not fill up with space and will not ever have to be
> looked at again. Can I just do entries in /etc/aliases that send them to
> /dev/null? /dev/urandom? Is there a preferred place to send mail to that
> I won't have to manage?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marc
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to forward all emails from certain web site domains to a place on
> the system that will not fill up with space and will not ever have to be
> looked at again. Can I just do entries in /etc/aliases that send them to
> /dev/null? /dev/urandom? Is there a preferred place to send mail to
that
> I won't have to manage?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marc
Ouch! I feared some kind of recursive email: an email that contains
itself that contains itself that...
Having a look at the man page for aliases(5), which is part of the
Postfix system, one has:
/file/name
Mail is appended to /file/name. See local(8) for
details of
delivery to file. Delivery is not limited to regular
files.
For example, to dispose of unwanted mail, deflect
it to
/dev/null.
Now, the aliases table is related to mail recipients, not to mail
senders; it allows you to say that emails for user "thatguy" are to be
trashed, not to say that emails from "thisguy" are to be trashed.
So, could you be more precise about "certain web sites domains"?
Because the solution may heavily depend on that.
Axel
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