John:
You read my mind. That's is the exact same thing I do here, (the x in front
of the username). I do it this way also so a user overdue on payment can not
pop their mail from another service and continue to lead me to believe that
there check is in the mail.
Eddie Strohmier
Bonwell Globalnet
www.bonwell.com
-----Original Message-----
From: John J. Donohue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Edward Marczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, June 12, 2000 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: Forwarding mail to /dev/null?
>On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Edward Marczak wrote:
>
>> > IS there a way to get Sendmail to forward mail for certain
>> > email addresses to /dev/null?
>>
>> "Fred" used to work at my company. He subscribed to many a mailing list.
>> He didn't unsub when he left. My many attempts to email list admins to
ask
>> that he be removed all have gone unanswered. Guess what I did:
>>
>> sendmail 8.9.3, an entry my aliases file:
>>
>> fred: "| cat >> /dev/null"
>> --
>
>You're nicer then I am. I don't want the dead traffic going thru my system
>or taking away 'upstream' bandwidth. When a user leaves here, we go into
>/etc/passwd and put an 'x' in front of the name (fred becomes xfred) and
>their mail starts bouncing with 'no such user'. It's amazing how fast
>listservs/admins who ignore sysadmin drop requests, modify their membership
>lists when mail starts bouncing back to them.....
>
>
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