A .qmail file that contains only a comment tells qmail not to deliver the
message to anywhere but to act as if it did. (This effectively throws the
message away).
Yes it is working as you intend. :)
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Brandon Pulsipher wrote:
> I am having a problem sending messages to /dev/null. I recently set a
> couple of .qmail files to /dev/null
> and now I see this in my logs:
>
> Apr 29 09:39:25 ns qmail: 925403965.005324 delivery 6356: deferral:
> Unable_to_write_/dev/null: invalid_argument._(#4.3.0)/
>
> I read through the archives and someone had suggest putting just '#' in the
> .qmail file. So I changed the qmail file to:
> #/dev/null
> and now I see n the logs:
>
> Apr 29 09:47:44 ns qmail: 925404464.203380 starting delivery 6377: msg
> 106426 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Apr 29 09:47:44 ns qmail: 925404464.203678 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
> Apr 29 09:47:44 ns qmail: 925404464.343924 delivery 6377: success:
> did_0+0+0/
> Apr 29 09:47:44 ns qmail: 925404464.344242 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
>
> So, my question is: Is qmail throwing this away now? It doesn't say
> deferral and I can't find any account that the mail went to, so I assumme
> this worked?
>
> Thanks.
>
> _Brandon
>
>
>
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