On 28 October 1998, Professional Software Engineering
<PSE-L(_at_)mail(_dot_)professional(_dot_)org> wrote:
[...]
I think aliasing the user mailbox to /dev/null will still ACCEPT the
mail, just route it to trash for local delivery - thus a mailbomb to a
closed mailbox for example would still suck your bandwidth.
[...]
Yes, the message is accepted and routed to the "file" mailer (so
yes, it will also suck your bandwidth). Using virtusertable is indeed
a better solution, but only provided that you can figure out the exact
incantation needed to enable it. The sendmail docs are even worse than
procmail ones WRT that kind of details. :-)
Regards,
Liviu Daia
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