Re: [Exim] How to disable specific entries in aliasfile?

* Volker Philippent <ba2319@???> [20011218 10:38]:
> Hello.
>
> I have a virtual domain setup similar to the one in FAQ/Q0401.
> In addition, I want to disable some accounts in this aliasfile, which have
> been used for spamming.
>
> The aliasfile looks like:
> one:test@???
> !spam:
> *:postmaster@???
>
> I tried to use a condition with a lookup on !${local_part}:
> condition = ${lookup{!$local_part}aliasfile{0}{1}}
>
> It did not work. The lookup succeeded (exim -d9: "director skipped,
> condition failure"), but afterwards, exim resolved the * default receiver.
>
> Does anyone have an idea how to make the account "spam" disabled?
>
> The ! is just an idea, it could be done in any other way, too.
>
> Aliasing it to "trash" (assumed that trash gets delivered to /dev/null) is
> no good idea, since it wastes bandwidth. Preferrably the message gets
> denied at SMTP-time with any 5xx code.

Use ":fail: blah-blah" as alias destination. Ex:

spam: :fail: This user gets too much spam.

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Kirill