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[how to bounce mail, informing the sender that the user's account has
expired.]

In article <KARL.90Mar7082150@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu>
karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:

   With apologies for a certain tendency to grotesque hacks, try this:
	   some-expired-user:	"|/usr/local/lib/expire-bounce"
   where /usr/local/lib/expire-bounce consists of
	   #!/bin/sh
	   echo 500 User no longer on system.
	   exit 1
   which results in bounces of the form:
	      ----- Transcript of session follows -----
	   500 User no longer on system.
	   554 "|/usr/local/lib/expire-bounce"... unknown mailer error 1

Building on Karl's suggestion, how about returning some sensible
error, like

	67 -- EX_NOUSER		(addressee unknown)
	69 -- EX_UNAVAILABLE	(service unavailable)
	73 -- EX_CANTCREAT	(can't create (user) output file)
	77 -- EX_NOPERM		(permission denied)

(taken from sysexits.h)

Mark
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