From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 19 23:33:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5296416A4E1 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:33:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danger@FreeBSD.org) Received: from virtual.micronet.sk (smtp.micronet.sk [84.16.32.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D236F43D46 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:33:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danger@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by virtual.micronet.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75D7310E699; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:32:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at virtual.micronet.sk Received: from virtual.micronet.sk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (virtual.micronet.sk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id uJ14utqs-KPm; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:32:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from danger.mcrn.sk (danger.mcrn.sk [84.16.37.254]) by virtual.micronet.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1714C10E5D0; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:32:58 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:32:55 +0200 From: Daniel Gerzo Organization: The FreeBSD Project X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <586495142.20060820013255@rulez.sk> To: Bill Moran In-Reply-To: <20060819192139.7ea5321d.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <20060819192139.7ea5321d.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to prevent users from receiving email X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Gerzo List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:33:08 -0000 Hello Bill, Sunday, August 20, 2006, 1:21:39 AM, you wrote: > Apparently my memory is useless and I've lost the ability to use > google as well. > I just added a user account to a mail server, but I don't want that > user to receive mail on that server. It's running Postfix. > I seem to remember a canonical method for preventing certain users > from receiving email. But my memory has failed, and I can't seem > to find anything on google. > Is it an /etc/aliases trick? Indeed. Just make it go to /dev/null: user: /dev/null Do not forget to run newaliases ;-) -- Best regards, Daniel mailto:danger@FreeBSD.org