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Date:      26 Jan 2024 12:43:42 -0500
From:      "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        mike@sentex.net
Subject:   Re: dma aliases to a file (/dev/null)
Message-ID:  <20240126174342.AE9FE819FE62@ary.qy>
In-Reply-To: <ceba522a-ffa1-43e1-b555-e9fe1927b1c8@sentex.net>

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It appears that mike tancsa <mike@sentex.net> said:
>Have a bit a hard time finding this via google and the man pages, but is 
>it possible to have
>
>bit-bucket: /dev/null
>
>in the /etc/aliases file with DMA ?

No, DMA only does local deliveries to files in /var/mail.

You can get pretty close by delivering to a mailbox called something like junkmail,
and run a cron job that deletes /var/mail/junkmail.

R's,
John



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