Vacation for non-existant users?

[Rob Siemborski]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Tarjei Huse wrote:

> I got a few users whom I've removed, and now I'd like to set a
> auto-responder for the addresses.
>
> I'd like to do this so people emailing them get their new address.
>
> Any suggestions on how to set this using sieve?

Sieve would require the existence of the user's inbox, but you could just
do this with vacation essentially.

Of course, it probably makes more sense to set up the autoresponder as a
part of the MTA, and keep cyrus out of it (if you don't want to keep the
user accounts around).  For example, you could have an LDAP entry for dead
users that says "this user is dead, his new address is x" and the MTA
could pick up on that and hand the message to a separate autoresponder.

-Rob

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