From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 16:42:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9A9916A420 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:42:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D830343D49 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:42:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.4) id k1HGgSNP089708; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:42:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:42:28 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Dave Message-ID: <20060217164228.GB52817@dan.emsphone.com> References: <000501c633de$a7d5f0d0$0200a8c0@satellite> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000501c633de$a7d5f0d0$0200a8c0@satellite> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail autoresponder X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:42:31 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 17), Dave said: > I've got a box that i took over that runs sendmail, mailscanner, > and sa for antispam. There's an email address at one of the domains > that the owner has indicated he would like an autoresponder hooked to > it. THe objective is whenever someone sends to that address it won't > be delivered to a mailbox, but dropped and the autoresponder msg will > be sent back. I'm a sendmail newbie in the extreme and would > appreciate any advice. Maybe /usr/bin/vacation will do what you want? Autoresponding isn't really the MTA's job, so if you have used some other tool with another MTA, use it here. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com