How to delete all incoming mail

[johnwwweissberg]

I have an account where I am collecting all spam. I would like all
arriving mail to be automatically be deleted.

In that account's .qmail file, I have simply put

--- file begin --
#
--- file end ---

Is this an efficient way to delete mail?
Is there a more direct way to redirect the mail to /dev/null?
Would this be more efficient:

--- file begin --
|/dev/null
--- file end ---

 

[thedaver]

Tell me more about your strategy. Why not deny incoming spam at the gateway to prevent your having to handle it at all? I guess your proposal works, but you might be working too hard still.

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[johnwwweissberg]

The mailbox is a catch-all for arriving mail that is not for a real existing user. My experience shows very large volumes of total spam sent in disctionary-type spam waves.

All I want to do is delete this stuff the most efficient way possible that puts the least stress as possible on qmail.

If I bounce back that the "user does not exist" then I get tone of undeliverable mail since the spammer's return address is always invalid.

 

[thedaver]

Use a patch like this

http://www.interazioni.it/opensource/chkuser/features.html

And don't even accept the email. Your disk/queue activity lightens up a lot and your bandwidth usage should reduce too.

Don't accept them to reject them, reject them right away.

HTH,
D.

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