Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 07:55:58 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: PLAZAS_CHRISTIAN@mercury.csg.peachnet.edu (Christian) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about mail -- mail gurus please help Message-ID: <199607021455.HAA12772@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <ED701C5870@mercury.csg.peachnet.edu> from "Christian" at Jul 2, 96 10:23:17 am
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Christian wrote:
>
> 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?
to do this on an person by person basis is easy. use REDIRECT
add to your /etc/aliases file on the mailhost for cc.csg.peachnet.edu
someuser: someuser@ColState.EDU.REDIRECT
add to your .mc file: feature(redirect)
redirect Reject all mail addressed to "address.REDIRECT" with
a ``551 User not local; please try <address>'' message.
If this is set, you can alias people who have left
to their new address with ".REDIRECT" appended.
create a new .cf using m4 and install.
dont forget to kill and restart sendmail
jmb
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