On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 10:32:57PM -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.
In Joe's .qmail go:
| bouncesaying "Joe has gone. Try contacting him at [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Obviously if you remove joe's home, then it'll be ~alias/.qmail-joe
that you place the bouncesaying in. There's a manpage on that command.
Regards.
