Re: [Exim] Making a blackhole router...

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Author: Matthew Byng-Maddick
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Making a blackhole router...
On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 09:35:13PM -0700, David@??? wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Tony Finch wrote:
> > Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
> > >Route to an appendfile transport, and specify the file as /dev/null.
> > Why not use a redirect router with data=:blackhole:?
> Because this is exim 3.36 not 4.x ... but thanks to you both; /dev/null is
> the perfect place to put those thing you want to blackhole :)


/dev/null is actually handled specially, without opening the device node.

This is why Philip suggested it.

MBM

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