Andy Doller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I have reciently inherited a system with qmail and I am not totally
> familiar with every aspect message delivery. I would like to stop the
> delivery of email to a single user. Is there a way to do this? I
> thought I could put /dev/null in the users .forward but all messages get
> delivered to postmaster saying that the message was undeliverable. I
> want to do this becuase the user doesn't use the account for email (just
> for login and computations) and their mail box is filling up and taking
> up to much space. I don't have the option of putting qmail on another
> machine. I'll take a polite RTFM if you can show me explictly where.
`man dot-qmail` and `man qmail-command`. However, since you were polite,
you could throw away all mail for the user by doing
`echo "#" >~user/.qmail`
or bounce all mail for that user with
`echo "|bouncesaying \"No such user.\"" >~user/.qmail`
Charles
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