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Date:      Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:32:55 +0200
From:      Daniel Gerzo <danger@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to prevent users from receiving email
Message-ID:  <586495142.20060820013255@rulez.sk>
In-Reply-To: <20060819192139.7ea5321d.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
References:  <20060819192139.7ea5321d.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>

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Hello Bill,

Sunday, August 20, 2006, 1:21:39 AM, you wrote:

> Apparently my memory is useless and I've lost the ability to use
> google as well.

> I just added a user account to a mail server, but I don't want that
> user to receive mail on that server.  It's running Postfix.

> I seem to remember a canonical method for preventing certain users
> from receiving email.  But my memory has failed, and I can't seem
> to find anything on google.

> Is it an /etc/aliases trick?

Indeed. Just make it go to /dev/null:

user: /dev/null

Do not forget to run newaliases ;-)

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel                            mailto:danger@FreeBSD.org




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