RE: [Exim] dump undeliverable incoming

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Author: John H Darrah
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To: Mike Scott
CC: Exim List
Subject: RE: [Exim] dump undeliverable incoming
I believe an alias like the following will dump everything
not deliverable:

*: :blackhole:

You will also need to change the the `search_type' to
`lsearch*' in the `system_aliases' director.


On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Mike Scott wrote:

> Hmmm...
>
> I'll need a larger nudge than this. I thought the :blackhole: mechanism was
> for sending messages for *defined* addresses to the bit bucket? For example
> in the aliases file.
> How/where would I specify redirection of unknown local users to this
> :blackhole:?
>
> Mike Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of John H Darrah
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 4:22 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Exim] dump undeliverable incoming
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>
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Mike Scott wrote:
>
> > Hi list:
> >
> > After an hour of research, I'm ready to ask:
> >
> > What I want to do is DROP all incoming messages destined for non-existent
> > users (i.e. noSuchUser@???). I use the ignore_errmsg_errors to deal
>
>
> Search the spec file for:
>
>     :blackhole:

>
> which does what its name implies. No delivery is done for
> it, and no error message is generated. If this is the
> first item in an alias list, a colon must be used to
> terminate the alias name.
>
> In conjunction with a wildcard alias.
>
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John Darrah (u05192)    | Dept: N/C Programming
Giddens Industries    | Ph: (425) 353-0405 #133
PO box 3190        | Ph: (206) 767-4212 #133
Everett  WA    98203    | Fx: (206) 764-9639