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

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Lähettäjä: Vadim Vygonets
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Aihe: Re: [Exim] Discarding mail to nobody without queuing ?
Quoth Jeffrey Goldberg on Fri, Feb 02, 2001:
> 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.
>
>     If a generated path is /dev/null, delivery to it is bypassed
>     at a high level [...]


Still, the mail is first queued in the spool directory, and only
then routed/directed and delivered, by another process. In this
case, delivery is bypassed, but all other things are still done.

Vadik.

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