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Article #5595Re: Bouncing mail for expired users
From: M.R.Murphy
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 1990 15:30
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 1990 15:30
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In article <5637@ur-cc.UUCP> Mark Sirota <msir@cc.rochester.edu> writes:
>What I think I want to do is create an alias in sendmail's alias file which
>will cause a message to bounce, but with a particular message.
You could always integrate sendmail with smail and deliver. When local
delivery is attempted through deliver, you are limited only by imagination
and proficency with shell scripts in your processing of the message.
The bouncing of mail for expired users is really simple. You might have
to keep the user information around in the password file with a "*xpired"
password entry (or the equivalent), or in another file with forwarding
information, or ...
Limited only by imagination (and CPU time :-), deliver is really slick.
--
Mike Murphy Sceard Systems, Inc. 544 South Pacific St. San Marcos, CA 92069
mrm@Sceard.COM {hp-sdd,nosc,ucsd,uunet}!sceard!mrm +1 619 471 0655
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!sceard!mrm From: mrm@sceard.Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Bouncing mail for expired users Message-ID: <4206@sceard.Sceard.COM> Date: 8 Mar 90 15:30:14 GMT References: <5637@ur-cc.UUCP> Reply-To: mrm@Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) Organization: Sceard Systems, Inc. San Marcos, CA 92069 Lines: 17