sendmail forward and message

sendmail forward and message

[Luca Ferrari]

Hi,
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?

Thanks,
Luca
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Luca Ferrari
fluca1978@infinito.it

Re: sendmail forward and message

[Glynn Clements]

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 <address>'' message.
		If this is set, you can alias people who have left
		to their new address with ".REDIRECT" appended.

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Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>