RE: [Exim] refusing email for certain local users

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Author: NOC - KP^2
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To: exim-users
Subject: RE: [Exim] refusing email for certain local users
Duh! right there at the bottom of the aliases file. Thanks for the reply
though!

And I just got your other reply. Sorry for being a little obscure there.
The main issue is drive space, dont want emails eating up my /var partition
that will never be checked.

Thanks!
CK

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy C. Reed [mailto:reed@wcug.wwu.edu]
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 6:43 PM
To: NOC - KP^2
Cc: exim-users@???
Subject: Re: [Exim] refusing email for certain local users


On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, NOC - KP^2 wrote:

> After perusing my newly bought Oreilly Exim book (what in the heck is that
> thing on the cover anyway??) I have a quick question. My apologies if I
> missed something obvious in the reading. I have certain local users that

I
> never want to accept email for. I want to quietly send these emails to
> /dev/null. Is there a facility in the config file to list certain users

to
> be handled in this way?


The easiest and fastest way is to simply use your aliases file. (You
probably already have a system_aliases director that uses /etc/aliases).

I often have users like:

junk: /dev/null

Jeremy C. Reed

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