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Re: [cobalt-users] How to Forward email to /dev/null
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] How to Forward email to /dev/null
- From: Tim Dunn <tdunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Jul 17 11:07:01 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> A client of mine would like to stop using one their
> email addresses but would like to have a
> vacation message say "Our email address,
> has changed please goto www.domain.com"
>
> Also I would like to trash the messages as
> soon as it arrives or send it to /dev/null...
>
> Can this be done using the GUI or with
> a .forward file? Or do I need to get a
> procmailrc file running?
Just use vacation, and then edit the .forward to remove the '\username'
portion. The email will get fed to /bin/vacation, which then replies.
The email does not get stored anywhere. (May want to put that in the
vacation message too.)
tim
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