On Tue, 16 May 2000 listman@??? wrote:
> >a.burnett: :fail: Address removed around 02/2000. No known forwarding address
> >s.johnson: :fail: Address removed around 04/1999. No known forwarding address
>
> This would be Ok, but I'd prefer to send a copy of the message to someone in
> the company in the relevant department. I guess I'm after another alias file,
> which also sends an autoreply.
Apply Wheeler's Law - use another indirection:
a.burnett: somebody.in.relevant.dept, failer
s.johnson: somebody.in.other.dept, failer
failer: :fail: Gone away. No known forwarding address
I haven't tried it, but I think that will work. However, it won't
reject the message at SMTP time, of course, and you lose the
user-specific message unless you have a separate "failer" for each one.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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