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Re: smtp alais to point to dev null



On Mar 21  1:40, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> | so, as a solution, i would like to put "car: /dev/null" in /etc/aliases,
> | but wanted to check here in case there is a better way of doing it.
> 
> You can do that.  What I did was to change the alias to 
>     :fail: Thanks for your interest, but the car is gone.
> I would actually recommend using ":blackhole:" instead of "/dev/null"
> because then exim won't even bother with opening the file and writing
> to it.
> 

According to Exim's docs it now recognises the file /dev/null as a
special case and treats it the same as :blackhole:

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