From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy@insightbb.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: OT - How to stop an account from receiving mail without deletingthe account?
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:24:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8B40B8EEF0E44E2B90A04C51685E5BEE@Boe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A7DE524.5030805@gmail.com>
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@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@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
>
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