I need to create a valid address that accepts mail but then just bit buckets it silently. I had created an alias to deliver to /dev/null but it throws an error and gets deffered when I try that.

Here's the error.

Aug 12 13:43:34 hermes courierd: started,id=00040018.3D57F3C6.000051A8,from=<ro...@buildscape.com>,module=local,host=alias!.xalias/nobody@buildscape+2ecom!2!2!/etc/courier/aliasdir!!,addr=<alias> Aug 12 13:43:34 hermes courierd: Waiting. shutdown time=none, wakeup time=Mon Aug 12 13:46:27 2002, queuedelivering=14, inprogress=2 Aug 12 13:43:34 hermes courierlocal: id=00040018.3D57F3C6.000051A8,from=<ro...@buildscape.com>,addr=<".xalias/nobody@buildscape+2ecom"@buildscape.com>:
mailbox.close: Invalid argument Aug 12 13:43:34 hermes courierlocal: id=00040018.3D57F3C6.000051A8,from=<ro...@buildscape.com>,addr=<".xalias/nobody@buildscape+2ecom"@buildscape.com>,status:
deferred

the alias looks as follows:

nobody: /dev/null

but the makealias -dump looks like this: nob...@buildscape.com: ".xalias/nobody@buildscape+2ecom"@buildscape.com

Is there another way I should be doing this?

C