Tony Finch wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2006, Patrick Unthank wrote:
>> What do I need to do in order to make an autoreply for a list of
>> addresses which are aliases. We are using ldap front end to maintain our
>> user list. There is an /etc/aliases file in existence but not all
>> aliases appear in there.
>
> You probably want to use an autoreply transport, as described at
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.62/doc/html/spec_html/ch27.html
> and I expect you'd want an accept router for the relevant addresses
> which passes them to your autoreply transport.
Philip help me craft this awhile back (different purpose, same result).
What you want is a system wide filter to trap the alias(es) in question
and send the generic response.
You'll need to enhance this to use; but, no matter where your aliases
are (LDAP or File) if you route them to this special user ('mary'
example) then it should generically work.
1) route all desired aliases to a named item. For example:
fred: mary
john: mary
2) set up a router to trap 'mary', trigger a filter and send a reply.
It's wise to put this first in exim.conf, before system_aliases and the
like, to prevent weird loops and stuff:
mary_router:
driver = redirect
local_parts = mary
allow_filter
file = /etc/mail/maryfilter.txt
reply_transport = address_reply
user = mail
3) craft the 'mary' filter, /etc/mail/maryfilter.txt, which will send
back the contents of /etc/mail/maryreply.txt:
# Exim filter
if error_message then finish endif
mail
subject "Hi from Staff: $h_to:"
from "do-not-reply@${qualify_domain}"
reply_to "do-not-reply@${qualify_domain}"
expand file "/etc/mail/maryreply.txt"
seen finish
4) create the response text /etc/mail/maryreply.txt:
Greetings,
Mary loves you. And your cat.
Love,
The Staff
Note that the 'seen finish' in the filter blackholes (throws away) all
emails; if you want, add some 'deliver' commands to send a copy off to
other people behind the scenes first.
HTH,
-te
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Troy Engel | Systems Engineer
Fluid, Inc |
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