Re: [cobalt-users] How to Forward email to /dev/null

[Tim Dunn <tdunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > > > Also I would like to trash the messages as
> > > > > soon as it arrives or send it to /dev/null...

> > Original poster wanted to trash the inbound mail, not forward or stash it.
> 
> To trash incoming email forward it (in the GUI) to "nobody". The GUI will
> not let you forward to "/dev/null" but the aliases file configures "nobody"
> to forward to "/dev/null". Vacation responses will still be sent even if the
> email is being trashed.

KISS.  If you have the following as your .forward:

	"|/usr/bin/vacation"

the mail does *not* get stored.  Only a reply is sent.  The standard
invocation line in .forward is:

	\tdunn, "|/usr/bin/vacation"

which *does* store the mail.  The leading '\' tells sendmail to not
process the .forward file (no loops, please), and instead, just store
it the specified user's mailspool.

tim

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