Re: [Exim] forward+notify

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Author: Dave C.
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To: Leonardo Boselli
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] forward+notify

Use one aliasfile director with unseen sets, that points at an
autoreply transport. then have your current aliasfile director
afterwards..


On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Leonardo Boselli wrote:

> Until now former users were pun in an aliasfile, and so the mail
> happily bounced to the new address.
> Now tha boss has decided that this behaviour should be allowed
> only for a limited (althought not very short - say 18 months ) time.
> So i would like to set an alias file ( old_localuser : new@??? )
> but also send to the sender of the message a message of the kind
> "We have forwarded your message sent to old_localuser that is no
> longer here to $new@??? .
> Please use $new@??? since $old_localuser@ourdomain will
> be discontinued shortly."
> One way i thought was to set a regular user, and then set a
> vacation message and a .forward with the lines new@address and
> /usr/bin/vacation localuser. But this would require to keep the
> account, althought just that files. If someone has a smarter idea,
> involving only exim.conf it would be nice to know it.
>
> Leonardo Boselli
> nucleo informatico e telematico
> Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile
> Universita` di Firenze
> V. S. Marta 3 - I-50139 Firenze
> tel +39()0554796431 fax +39()055495333
> http://www.dicea.unifi.it/~leo
>
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