From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 07:21:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA10769 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 07:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mars.csg.peachnet.edu (mars.CSG.PeachNet.EDU [168.26.193.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA10762 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 07:21:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mercury.csg.peachnet.edu (mercury.CSG.PeachNet.EDU [168.26.193.32]) by mars.csg.peachnet.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA02283 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 10:10:23 -0400 Received: from CCMAIN/SpoolDir by mercury.csg.peachnet.edu (Mercury 1.21); 2 Jul 96 10:23:38 EST Received: from SpoolDir by CCMAIN (Mercury 1.30); 2 Jul 96 10:23:20 EST From: "Christian" Organization: Columbus College, Columbus, GA To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 10:23:17 EST MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: question about mail -- mail gurus please help Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.31 Message-ID: Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I would like to know if it is possible, using any tools available in UNIX - FreeBSD in particular, to set up a system that would automatically answer mail sent to any user on the system with a stock message. Let me try to explain what I would like to do more clearly. Say a person sends a message to someuser@cc.csg.peachnet.edu. What I would like is to have the machine take the sender's address from the message and return to them a message that says something like "someuser@cc.csg.peachnet.edu can no longer receive mail at this address. The new address is someuser@ColState.EDU please make note of this change." Simple enough, huh? But it gets more interesting.... Ideally the user should not need to have an account on the system that does this forwarding. What I mean is, that any and all mail sent to any name @cc.csg.peachnet.edu be sent this message, wether or not the user's name exists on the host. i.e. I can send a message to cplazas@cc.csg.peachnet.edu or mickey_mouse@cc.csg.peachnet.edu and both would get the same reply even if mickey_mouse was not a user on the system. Is this possible? Thanks, C.P. ____________ Christian Plazas Columbus College, Columbus,GA 706.568.2063 ______________________________________________________________________