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

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Author: Dave C.
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To: Vadim Vygonets
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Discarding mail to nobody without queuing ?
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Vadim Vygonets wrote:

> 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.
>


I don't think there IS any way to get exim to not receive a message and
store it in the queue (well, short of rejecting it at SMTP level or
something)..