From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Glynn Clements Subject: Re: sendmail forward and message Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:03:48 +0100 Message-ID: <17108.1540.334122.424146@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <42D3CD21.5060409@infinito.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <42D3CD21.5060409@infinito.it> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Luca Ferrari Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Luca Ferrari wrote: > is it possible to configure sendmail in order to forward emails from a > user to another and, at the same time, to reply to the sender with a > message that states the addressed user does no more exists? I know how > to do the things in a separate way (.forward or alias and > virtusertable), but not how to compose them (in fact I failed trying to > compose them). Any help? Create an alias (or ~/.forward file) to forward the message to two addresses. The first is the user's new email address, while the second sends the reply, e.g. a program alias which invokes the "vacation" command. Alternatively, you can use FEATURE(redirect) for the second alias: redirect Reject all mail addressed to "address.REDIRECT" with a ``551 User has moved; please try
'' message. If this is set, you can alias people who have left to their new address with ".REDIRECT" appended. -- Glynn Clements