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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Neal Becker
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: help
On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Neal Becker wrote:

> I'm getting overloaded with messages to a particular user. I don't
> know why. I can't just block the source.
>
> Any ideas how to ignore all messages to a particular user? Can I put:
>
> user: /dev/null
>
> in the alias file?


Yes, but you also have to put

user = nobody

on the aliasfile director, to specify a uid to run the "save" operation
(assuming you haven't got "user=" on that director already).

In the next version of Exim you will be able to put

user: :blackhole:

in the alias file, and it will throw it away at directing time.

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