Re: [Exim] Discarding mail to nobody without queuing ?

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Author: Jeffrey Goldberg
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To: Vadim Vygonets
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Discarding mail to nobody without queuing ?
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Vadim Vygonets wrote:

> > nobody: :blackhole:
> > nobody: /dev/null
>
> Yes, but spooling (queueing) will still happen on the way to
> /dev/null.


From the spec (3.10)

21.3 Types of alias item

[...]

    If a generated path is /dev/null, delivery to it is bypassed
    at a high level [...]


-j

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