On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 09:53:53AM -0800, Kai MacTane wrote:
> At 11:55 AM 12/17/99 +0100, you wrote:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >> Tried putting /dev/null in the .qmail but I get this error:
> >>
> >> Error_while_writing_message._(#4.3.0)
> >>
> >> Any ideas? Haven't had time to search the docs/web though.
> >
> >make .qmail an empty file, or a file with only comments.
Comments. Empty file will trigger default instructions.
> .qmail-devnull:
> /dev/null
Should work theoretically, I think...
[snip]
> .qmail-devnull:
> |/dev/null
Is complete and utter bullshit.
[snip]
>
> .qmail-devnull:
> # Comment. Deliver to /dev/null?
Discards the message as requested.
> Dec 17 09:44:24 gateway qmail: 945452664.275136 starting delivery 3165: msg
> 1194
> 6 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dec 17 09:44:24 gateway qmail: 945452664.275647 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
> Dec 17 09:44:24 gateway qmail: 945452664.332010 delivery 3165: success:
> did_0+0+0/
> Dec 17 09:44:24 gateway qmail: 945452664.363332 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
> Dec 17 09:44:24 gateway qmail: 945452664.363701 end msg 11946
>
> I did not try an empty file, as man dot-qmail states:
>
> If .qmail is completely empty (0 bytes long), or does not
> exist, qmail-local follows the defaultdelivery instruc�
> tions set by your system administrator; normally default�
> delivery is ./Mailbox, so qmail-local appends the mail
> message to Mailbox in mbox format.
>
> However, the documentation doesn't say anything about delivering to
> /dev/null if it finds only a comment line. (Indeed, I suspect that
> qmail-local is simply silently discarding the message, rather than
> explicitly attempting delivery to /dev/null.)
I don't know where I've read it, but it's true :)
> While it may be deducible that a .qmail file consisting of only one comment
> line (or of only comment lines) would result in silent discarding of
> messages, perhaps it should be made explicitly clear in the documentation?
I think that would be a good idea :)
> It isn't intuitively obvious, especially since it differs from
> qmail-local's behavior in the case of an empty (but present) .qmail file.
Correct.
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/womanizer/pretending coder
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| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
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