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  • Re: /dev/null analog for email messages?

    From Anne Wrigley@wrigley77@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.apps on Fri Feb 9 17:57:55 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.apps

    On Saturday 30 April 2011 at 23:52:55 UTC+1, AES wrote:
    Is there any standard or conventional "black hole" dummy email address, analogous to /dev/null for writing to files?
    (i.e., if you send an email message to this address, it will be accepted
    by the email system, but immediately dumped, with no reply or "bounce"
    of any kind.)
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  • From Your Name@YourName@YourISP.com to comp.sys.mac.apps on Sat Feb 10 16:21:48 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.apps

    On Saturday 30 April 2011 at 23:52:55 UTC+1, AES wrote:
    Is there any standard or conventional "black hole" dummy email address, analogous to /dev/null for writing to files?
    (i.e., if you send an email message to this address, it will be accepted
    by the email system, but immediately dumped, with no reply or "bounce"
    of any kind.)

    Just make a throw away email address at of the numerous email providing
    sites (Gmail, Yandex, GMX, ...), and then don't bother logging into it.

    --- Synchronet 3.20a-Linux NewsLink 1.114