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> Hello,
>
> I have looked at the relevent documentation and the FAQ< and did not find
> a way to create a working 'nobody' alias. This is an alias that redirects
> any and all mail sent to it to /dev/null. Alas, putting '/dev/null' in a
> .qmail merely results in qmail complaining about being unable to write the
> message to the file in the Mail logs.
>
> Does anyone know how to make a working nobody alias in qmail?


Hmmm. Sounds like something else is going on as /dev/null works for
me.

echo /dev/null >~/.qmail-nobody
echo to: markd-nobody | qmail-inject

Feb 7 12:39:47 bushwire qmail: starting delivery 11148: msg 17657 to local markd-nobody...
Feb 7 12:39:48 bushwire qmail: delivery 11148: success: did_0+0+1/

What sort of complaint are you getting?


Regards.

Sam Trenholme writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have looked at the relevent documentation and the FAQ< and did not find
> a way to create a working 'nobody' alias. This is an alias that redirects
> any and all mail sent to it to /dev/null. Alas, putting '/dev/null' in a
> .qmail merely results in qmail complaining about being unable to write the
> message to the file in the Mail logs.

echo '#' >~alias/.qmail-nobody

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