From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 689591098D for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:10:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE7B013A89 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:10:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:10:25 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 4Ck6RfVmdTX7aKnsl441GKcxi5Kp7+mS4Isa0onhlevN 1250021425 Received: from localhost (24-105-233-162.cm.mhcable.com [24.105.233.162]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 16368616B for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:10:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:10:23 -0400 From: Chuck Hallenbeck To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: OT - How to stop an account from receiving mail withoutdeletingthe account? Message-ID: <20090811201023.GA5608@rx.localhost> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <6828125AFC5C4CA1AFAFBACF0B5CC8F3@Boe> <4A7DE524.5030805@gmail.com> <8B40B8EEF0E44E2B90A04C51685E5BEE@Boe> <023e01ca1ab9$bc886dd0$6501a8c0@JXTTD51> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <023e01ca1ab9$bc886dd0$6501a8c0@JXTTD51> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:10:26 -0000 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@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@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" > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > 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@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _____ > > avast! Antivirus : 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@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.