From nobody Fri Jan 26 17:43:42 2024 X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4TM4mx4zWCz58X0v for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:43:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Received: from gal.iecc.com (gal.iecc.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:43:6f73:7461]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "gal.iecc.com", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4TM4mx34xtz4tHB for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:43:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none Received: (qmail 24720 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2024 17:43:43 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=iecc.com; h=date:message-id:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:cleverness; s=608e65b3ef4f.k2401; bh=Pcnj41UsYF3xYbRVyk+8VqR5Fl6/KqdYhmIi1qEt61o=; b=LuyMJGUW0/JjIUlmtV2ys1yyySAZCkMXsfZmZAGrYhEu2PAvtXkF07DViVwmRZ5kQlWDZzEdSgFvjWAJhkV7hLkDvnPHRih/QiDfda6229ThukizkWHD2K/8tduT0L9dRRxTxF7/4vbpEp433dFGCZvUEHp+849Ec9DZl8oCMVgkPj6C8YqeHVl1w4xdLEbyYtcqR2xQ+dHOOzihCpW/Pr6tEaSm9BKxGCh/FMUje0ogt/I6qt7AbV+VZfnaerdc+3lqD8jqzP40Mf3NIY0mUUkFdnl1ymIRhoZiHIYwgMmdbKUeXCTzeNQ1YBlz17YS7c+mUrB7h9WEK7NN1xX/OA== Received: from ary.qy ([IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126::78:696d:6170]) by imap.iecc.com ([IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126::78:696d:6170]) with ESMTPS (TLS1.3 ECDHE-RSA CHACHA20-POLY1305 AEAD) via TCP6; 26 Jan 2024 17:43:43 -0000 Received: by ary.qy (Postfix, from userid 501) id AE9FE819FE62; Fri, 26 Jan 2024 12:43:42 -0500 (EST) Date: 26 Jan 2024 12:43:42 -0500 Message-Id: <20240126174342.AE9FE819FE62@ary.qy> From: "John Levine" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: mike@sentex.net Subject: Re: dma aliases to a file (/dev/null) In-Reply-To: Organization: Taughannock Networks X-Headerized: yes Cleverness: minimal List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4TM4mx34xtz4tHB X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:6939, ipnet:2001:470::/32, country:US] It appears that mike tancsa said: >Have a bit a hard time finding this via google and the man pages, but is >it possible to have > >bit-bucket: /dev/null > >in the /etc/aliases file with DMA ? No, DMA only does local deliveries to files in /var/mail. You can get pretty close by delivering to a mailbox called something like junkmail, and run a cron job that deletes /var/mail/junkmail. R's, John