To kill an email addy

[bonanza]

As many of you surely do, I get any and all emails sent to any email address my domain name. (My friends enjoy the "flexibility" in email names to use for me).

A long time ago, I signed up to a website using a unique email alias for that site, as I do on untrusted sites. Lo and behold, it is now deluged with spam.

I just want to kill it. Can I point it to /dev/null or something in the aliases file?

[jamie]

hi bonanza,

i've done just that with an account too ;-)

username: /dev/null

in the aliases file

[bonanza]

Ahh, my inbox and delete key thank you.

I tried username: "> /dev/null"
Alas I tried to hard.

[daisho]

Depending on what mail server you use you may want to "Bounce" the email to sender. This has the added benifit that email may end up stop being sent to that address thus saving bandwidth.