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Re[3]: /dev/null'ing mail without local delivery

From: Andrew Diederich (andrewdiedgmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 15 2006 - 18:12:35 CST


Hello Noel,

Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 4:23:05 PM, you wrote:

> At 04:51 PM 11/15/2006, Andrew Diederich wrote:
>>Victor put me in the right direction. Postfix 2.2 has a
>>discard
>>service in master.cf. So, in my virutal_alias_maps file I put:
>>
>>devnullexample.com discard:Go away
>>
>>and mail to devnullexample.com is accepted, then deleted.
>>Nov 15 15:47:57 mxserver postfix/discard[4319]: EBE781884D:
>>to=<devnullexample.com>, relay=none, delay=1, status=sent
>>(Go away)

> Really?? I wouldn't expect that to work at
> all. Virtual_alias_maps will only accept one or more email
> addresses as a lookup result, not a transport:nexthop, not
> a file, not a pipe-to-command.

> However, you can add an entry like the one shown above to
> your transport_maps, and that will work.

Whoops! You are, of course, correct. Grep tells me I put that in
/etc/postfix/transport, not virtual.

> Apparently you added it to both virtual_alias_maps and
> transport_maps.

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Best regards,
 Andrew