On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, John Horne wrote:
> However, it is not unusual to be asked to 'hold' the mail for all the users
> on a specific file server whilst some problem is sorted out.
Why not just turn off the SMTP listener on that server?
> I thought that
> using the 'hold_domains' option would do this. However, it seems that whilst
> the director directs the message to the correct file server and will indeed
> hold it, mailq shows the original envelope recipient address (which is
> usually 'userid@???'. Thus all the held mail is shown as being
> under 'plymouth.ac.uk' and not the file server in question.
It has occurred to me that you might be able to make use of the
"one_time" option in aliasfile or forwardfile to do what you want.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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