I will be decommissioning a system currently used as a mail hub during the
summer. I've been told that I have to send a reply to every message that gets
relayed by the system, advising of the impending demise. So I setup an
autoreply transport and director suitable for intercepting each message:-
warning_t:
driver = autoreply
file = /usr/local/mail/warning.txt
file_expand
from = postmaster@???
to = $sender_address
user = mta
group = mta
subject = "Re: Your mail to ${local_part}"
auto_warning_d:
driver = smartuser
transport = warning_t
no_verify
unseen
It all *appears* to work just as planned, except that I get entries in the
main log file of the form
1998-07-02 14:40:56 0yrjbc-0005sW-00 <= mta@??? U=mta P=local S=430 for dhs
1998-07-02 14:40:57 0yrjbd-0005sb-00 Error while handling error message 0yrjbd-0005sb-00: no recipient addresses
1998-07-02 14:40:57 0yrjbc-0005sW-00 == dhs@??? T=warning_t defer (0): Failed to send message from warning_t transport (1)
1998-07-02 14:40:58 0yrjbc-0005sW-00 => dhs@??? <dhs@???> D=punt_d T=remote_smtp H=mailswitch.city.ac.uk [138.40.12.12]
despite which, the autoreply warnings get delivered perfectly OK. I'm not too
familiar with this part of Exim, so if anyone could comment on what's going on
or what I'm doing wrong, I'd be most grateful.
DHS
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