Greetings - Can anyone give me any advice/pointers about using Exim's autoreply transport to implement vacation-style responses when multiple addresses map to an underlying e-mail address (eg, one or more aliases point at the username)?
Currently our users have addresses of the form <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a small number having aliases (to give role-based addresses) also pointing at their underlying <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At the moment we are still using Sendmail and vacation on our mail front-end machines, and a source of annoyance to our users is that responses are only sent when an incoming message contains their <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > address in the To/Cc header, but doesn't when the message is arriving for their <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> address (because vacation is checking the real address appears somewhere in these headers). I'm preparing to switch to Exim on the mail gateways and would dearly like to be able to generate auroresponses when the incoming message is has either the real e-mail address or one of its aliases in its To/Cc headers. This is particularly important now as we're soon to start offering the opportunity of registering a real-name based address synonymous with a user's real address. So potentially there are one or more aliases associated with an underlying real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> address... I'm assuming I need to do an LDAP/database lookup somewhere during the routing/transport stage to find the aliases that are associated with the real address, and then checking whether any of these appear in the To/Cc headers? (Or is there an easier trick given the recipient address will have already been through the alias expansion process within Exim?) I'm having a bit of trouble getting my head around what I need to do where... does anyone have any advice, pointers to useful pages or recipes to get me going? With many thanks, Mike B-) -- The Computing Service, University of York, Heslington, York Yo10 5DD, UK Tel:+44-1904-433811 FAX:+44-1904-433740 * Unsolicited commercial e-mail is NOT welcome at this e-mail address. * -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
