my mailinator post does essentially the same thing. :)

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Shawn Beasley <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello Steve,
>
> On Jan 7, 2011, at 15:35 , Steve Durbin wrote:
>
> > Armando,
> >
> > The solution we are using is to create a mail "sink". Using Postfix (or
> any other mail client) it's fairly easy to set email addresses that just
> throw the mail away.
> >
> > Here, if you send an email to dummy-(anything)@help.bridgend.gov.uk it
> just gets thrown away. This allows us to have *unique* emails for use as
> OTRS customer IDs without the user actually having to have email.
> >
> > We did this by configuring Postfix with a virtual-regexp as:
> >
> > /^dummy-(.*)@help.bridgend.gov.uk/ devn...@localhost
> >
> > And then in aliases:
> >
> > devnull: |/usr/local/bin/devnull
> >
> > The script then just consists of "cat >/dev/null". We only used a script
> because it's cleaner in the aliases files. There are simpler ways of
> configuring mail clients, but we found this the cleanest for us as the OTRS
> box already had Postfix on it.
> ...
>
> This is a very interesting concept, and a good setup in my humble opinion.
> How would you feel about documenting this as a howto on the wiki
> http://wiki.otrs.org/index.php?title=English_Area ?
>
> ///shawn
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