[Gllug] Postfix

John Winters john at linuxemporium.co.uk
Thu Jan 30 15:11:02 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 15:01, Neil Fryer wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> At the moment on our Postfix server we have a load of mails coming in for
> someone who left the co last year, and at the moment we are sending them all
> to /dev/null. Like so:
> 
> # Person who should get root's mail
> #root:          marc
> 
> # added by sympa-2.3.4 rpm Wed Jul 12 10:50:38 EDT 2000
> # listmaster:     root
> # sympa: "|/home/sympa/bin/queue 0 sympa"
> # sympa-request:  listmaster at localhost.localdomain
> # sympa-owner:    listmaster at localhost.localdomain
> vladimir.baranek: "|/dev/null"
> 
> Now I want to send a mail back to everyone that sends to this mail addy, how
> would I do that?

You could simply remove the above alias.

Alternatively, you could pipe the incoming message to a script which
generates a more friendly bounce message.  The vacation program might be
a good start.

HTH
John

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