Re: [Exim] me again

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Thomas Kinghorn wrote:

Subject: [Exim] me again

Please put the subject of your mail in the Subject: of your mail. tnx.

> When a mail comes in for, say, user@???, I would like
> to autoreply to the sender informing them that the account is disabled
> and that the mail must be sent to user1@???.

We also have some obsolete domains. Most of the (voluminous) mail
addressed to them is spam, and most of that has counterfeited sender
addresses.

It would be a disastrous mistake, at least in our case, to go
composing autoreplies to the counterfeited envelope sender addresses
("collateral spam"). Much preferable to give a 5xx response
containing some informative text, and leave the offering MTA to do the
right thing. If it goes and does the wrong thing, then at least it'll
be doing it on its own responsibility, not on ours.

IMHO and YMMV.