[PLUG] auto reply

[Terry Griffin]

> 
> To all :
> 
> I am having some problem regarding those user accounts that have been remove
> in our mail server.  What we want to do is to have an auto reply message to
> all the messages that would be coming for that deleted account.  How can I
> make an auto reply message.
> 
> I hope someone could help me with this one.
> 
> Thank You and Good Day.
> 

If you're using sendmail, you could put something like this in your
/etc/aliases file for a deleted user we'll call bob.

   bob: "|/path/to/program/no-such-user"

This will pipe the e-mail message to standard input of the 'no-such-user' 
program, which could be a Perl script or something that generates an auto
reply. You might be able to use the vacation program for this purpose.

Terry
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Terry Griffin <griffint at pobox.com>
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