On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
>
> > We have a deprecated domain, cran.ac.uk, which despite efforts over
> > the past 5 years is still used.
>
> Chop it off. They will soon learn. :-)
>
> > What I would like to do is deliver mail normally addressed to things
> > in that domain, but to also generate a message to the sender (envelope
> > form) of the message informing them that the address @*.cran.ac.uk
> > is to go away.
>
> It should be possible to do this with an "unseen" smartuser director,
> and an autoreply transport, along the lines of the following (cribbed
> from David Sheryn's example of the same sort of thing):
>
> warning_t:
> driver = autoreply
> file = /usr/local/mail/warning.txt
> file_expand
> from = postmaster@???
> to = $sender_address
> user = exim
> subject = "Re: Your mail to ${local_part}@${domain}"
>
> auto_warning_d:
> driver = smartuser
> domains = cran.ac.uk
> condition = ${if eq{$sender_address}{}{no}{yes}}
> transport = warning_t
> no_verify
> unseen
>
> ... but David was having some problems with this which I'm not sure got
> fully resolved. (An alternative to skipping when $sender_address is null
> would be to send to postmaster@???.)
Apologies to Phil for not replying earlier, I upgraded from V1.82 to V1.927 on
the affected machine, and the "strangeness" went away :-( ... so the
arrangement above seems to be working fine.
DHS
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