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 > > > > -- > > Jesus you're my life. > > I live only to serve You > > Each and every day. > > --Kyle > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _____ > > avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. > > > Virus Database (VPS): 090810-0, 08/10/2009 > Tested on: 8/11/2009 3:27:12 PM > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (70% of Full) My web site: www.hallenbeck.ftml.net For an accessible open source twitter service, see www.identi.ca -------- Winning isn't everything, but losing really sucks.
