The way that I solved that problem was to create a deletemailuser script in
my /usr/sbin directory that runs userdel, then runs through the .qmail
aliases, one at a time, grep -v 'ing for the username, replacing the
contents with the output of the grep. See below for the complete script.
MHP
#!/bin/bash
#
# /usr/sbin/mail/deletemailuser
# This program will delete qmail users from the system
# Written on 4-21-2000 by Matthew Patterson
# Modified to remove users from groups on 7-24-2000
#
/usr/sbin/userdel $1
rm -r /home/$1
cat /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-alias1 | grep -v $1 > /tmp/deletemailuser.alias1
mv -f /tmp/deletemailuser.alias1 /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-alias1
cat /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-alias2 | grep -v $1 > /tmp/deletemailuser.alias2
mv -f /tmp/deletemailuser.alias2 /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-alias2
----- Original Message -----
From: Angel, Christopher J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 11:56 AM
Subject: Bounce suppression on .qmail lists
> We have a qmail server with quite a few .qmail-enternamehere aliases, some
> of which are used by our customers to email various internal groups.
>
> for example, we have a .qmail-systems file:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Sometimes, when someone emails an alias, one of the people in the list
> causes a bounce. In the example, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
>
> This bounce ends up going to the customer who emailed the alias. Needless
> to say, it doesn't look good. We'd rather that bounces in that specific
> case don't happen.
>
> We looked around for a solution, but can't find one, and am now asking if
> anyone here might have an idea.
>
> Thanks,
> __________________________________________________
> Christopher Angel, B.E., B.Sc Senior Systems Engineer
> Qwest Communications, Inc. IP Operations/Systems
> Direct: 703-363-3148 Fax: 703-363-3177
> Pager: 888-666-3163 Pager Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
