From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 25 12:46:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA09044 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:46:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09031 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:46:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA15101; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:42:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:42:43 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199811252042.MAA15101@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, scott@computeralt.com Subject: Re: Alias to null? In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981125153444.033b84a0@mail.computeralt.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:38:46 -0500 >From: "Scott I. Remick" >I would like to set up a dummy account that, should any email be sent to >it, it gets simply discarded and does not pile up. However, it's important >that POP3 access still work on this account... I just never want messages >to be present to be picked up :) (long story). Is there a way in >/etc/aliases to alias the dummy account to /dev/null or similar? So.... Sounds as if doing precisely what you suggest is in order: In /etc/aliases: dummy: /dev/null And create an empty mailbox: # touch /var/mail/dummy # chown dummy /var/mail/dummy # chmod 0600 /var/mai/dummy Looks to me as if that should come fairly close, anyway.... david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message