Re: [exim] Duff forward files

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 16:08, Chris Edwards wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Ron McKeating wrote:
>
> | To avoid re-inventing of wheels, has anybody done anything that does a
> | callout if the user has a .forward file to see if it is valid, and if
> | not delivers to the local address. We seem to get lots of students that
> | forward their email to accounts that have expired long ago.
>
> Unfortunately, since they've forwarded their mail elsewhere, the
> implication is they're not reading their local (uni) - in which case
> simply removing the forward is insufficient, as mails will fester unread.
>
> Ideally some non-email-based method is needed to contact them.
>

Yes we can contact their supervisor, at least if we have delivered
locally; when we do get through to them they can still go in and read
it. But we need a way to test .forward files with maybe either a perl or
shell script and produce a list of duff ones.

Ron
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> Chris Edwards, Glasgow University Computing Service
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Ron McKeating
Senior IT Services Specialist
Internet Services and Software Solutions
Loughborough University
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