On 2 Nov 2011, at 18:54, Joe Schaefer wrote: >> ________________________________ >> From: Simon Phipps <[email protected]> >> >> On 2 Nov 2011, at 18:31, Dave Fisher wrote: >> >>> (Choice one) If only a few addresses continue (like [email protected]) with >>> the rest bouncing with whatever message and link then Apache Infra can >>> support it on the normal qmail/ezmlm system. With or without preserving MLs >>> as subscriber-less forwarders. >> >> How easy is it to ensure that all old [email protected] addresses fail >> with a polite and informative message specific to the situation rather than >> a generic fail? > > While I don't know how to do this off the top of my head > with postfix,this is something most mail servers will support. > I doknow how to do this (setup a default autoresponder mailbox > for the domain)if we go with integration into the existing > qmail-basedinfrastructure.
OK, thanks, that's helpful. Building on Dennis's point about respecting the community as well as the committers, I think it would be good to arrange for this if it's decided to shut down all the mail forwarders people outside the PPMC are using. S.
