Re: [Exim] Auto reply to email to people who have left

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Author: Yann Golanski
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To: Andrew Hawkins
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Auto reply to email to people who have left
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 03:39:22PM +0000, listman@??? wrote:
> I've thought it would be a good idea to send back some sort of standard reply
> when someone leaves the company, perhaps offering another email address to
> try, as well as forwarding the mail on to someone within the company.
>
> What I'd ideally like to do is to create a file with a list of local user
> names that don't exist anymore, and have this searched before the /etc/passwd
> file for local deliveries. If the name is in there, a reply should be sent,
> and the message forwarded to a different user (ideally different for each
> person).
>
> Has anyone done anything like this?


Not as such, but you could do a .foward/.filter file with the message.
It should be something very similar to a vacation message, but with a
different body ;>

...and take care of mailing lists.

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Dr Yann Golanski                            Internet Systems Developer
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