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From: jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: mail to /dev/null
Message-ID: <919@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 6 Feb 89 07:28:04 GMT
References: <3244@xyzzy.UUCP>
Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands
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In article <3244@xyzzy.UUCP> clegg@dg-rtp.dg.com (Alan Clegg) writes:

>Does anybody have any idea what I can do to make sure mail to /dev/null goes
>away?
Just put in the /usr/lib/aliases file a line with

	nobody:		/dev/null

and run "newaliases". It works fine.
What has the sendmail.cf file you mentioned to do with that?

>Even a better question... Is it legal to alias somebody to /dev/null?
It's up to you to decide what to do with your mail.
I use "nobody" as a test address.
But you shouldn't forward "postmaster" to /dev/null, please!

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