On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 10:32:35PM -0800, Matt Harrington wrote:
>
> with sendmail, if an entry like this:
>
> joe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> is in /etc/aliases then any message sent to joe will be bounced back with
> a helpful note about joe's new email address. this way you don't have to
> forward email to joe's new address for years after they leave. eventually
> joe's correspondents learn to use joe's new address. if i only forwarded
> joe's email, his correspondents would have no incentive to use his new
> address and i hate seeing mail to joe in the queue years after his
> departure.
>
> before i work on a script to do this with qmail i thought i'd ask if
> anyone has done this before. i'd rather not re-invent the wheel.
Use bouncesaying. bouncesaying in a .qmail file causes a QSBMF-style
bounce to be sent with the supplied string used as the failure
indication for that recipient.
PGP signature
