Hi Ken, Bill, All. I would like this simple feature in qmailadmin:
A special "dropzone" "account" which would be similar to "shit > /dev/null". Why? Well, imagine you have a customer that has been naughty and receives a lot of shit e-mails. Instead of just deleting the account and bounce shitloads of bounces, doublebounces, triplebounces back and forth, just silently nuke the damn mail by sending it to > /dev/null. It would be as simple as making a special non removable account (dot qmail file) that only contains a single "#" on the first line. Name this special account "dropzone" and then just edit the naughty account by redirecting it to the "dropzone" account (which, in fact would be equal to > /dev/null). I have been using this built in qmail technique since 96' (or was it 97'?)... I have sent patches earlier where one could redirect deleted accounts to "#", but no one seemed that interested. Do I really have to explain more why this would be a good thing for the internet society? I hope not. An extension to this idea would be to log the offending spammers e-mail address, and later include it globally in the "badmailfrom" file (requires a patch I think) Additionally you will find patches at http://d-srv.com/sw/patches/ Chears. -- Oden Eriksson, Jokkmokk, Sweden. Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586, kernel 2.4.10-2mdksmp. Uptime: 2 days
