Pkg exim4 users - Apr 2007 - What happens to unrouteable mail?

Hi all,

Something of a daft question no doubt, but how can I send a load of
mail to /dev/null?

I''m running an out-of-the-box Exim4 on Debian.

Fetchmail polls my ISP domain and mops up all the spam before handing
it to Exim addressed to ''junk@localhost''.

I could create a user ''junk'' and create a symlink
/var/mail/junk
pointing to /dev/null but no doubt there''s a cleaner way.

Any ideas much appreciated?

Sebastian

On Friday 27 April 2007 18:41, Sebastian Tennant wrote:
> Something of a daft question no doubt, but how can I send a load of
> mail to /dev/null?
>
> I''m running an out-of-the-box Exim4 on Debian.
>
> Fetchmail polls my ISP domain and mops up all the spam before handing
> it to Exim addressed to ''junk@localhost''.
Short answer: Put the following in /etc/aliases:

junk: :blackhole:

Long answer: You don''t want to dump mail in the bit bucket unseen. Are
you
absolutely sure that you won''t ever throw away valid mail?

-- 
Magnus Holmgren        holmgren@lysator.liu.se
                       (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks)

  "Exim is better at being younger, whereas sendmail is better for 
   Scrabble (50 point bonus for clearing your rack)" -- Dave Evans
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Quoth Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@lysator.liu.se>:
> On Friday 27 April 2007 18:41, Sebastian Tennant wrote:
>> Something of a daft question no doubt, but how can I send a load of
>> mail to /dev/null?
>>
>> I''m running an out-of-the-box Exim4 on Debian.
>>
>> Fetchmail polls my ISP domain and mops up all the spam before handing
>> it to Exim addressed to ''junk@localhost''.
>
> Short answer: Put the following in /etc/aliases:
>
> junk: :blackhole:
>
> Long answer: You don''t want to dump mail in the bit bucket unseen.
Are you
> absolutely sure that you won''t ever throw away valid mail?
Yes, I am.  Valid local parts are routed elsewhere.  Thanks for your
help.  It works a treat.

Sebastian