Re: [Exim] Exim as a black hole

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Author: Franz Georg Köhler
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim as a black hole
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:48:21PM +0300, Hristo Grigorov <Hristo.Grigorov@???> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I need an advice on how to configure Exim to act as a "black hole".
> In more details, it usually does accept and forward all the inbound mails to
> a particular host. But, if that host is down or the system (where the Exim is
> installed) runs out of disk space, I want Exim just to accept and silently
> trash all the mails, prolly by puting them in /dev/null. So the basic idea is
> that Exim must reponse to inbound requests at all cost.


This is the opposite of usually used (and most commonly wanted...)
behaviour (therefore, I do not know if it is possible to set up exim
that way).