Re: vacation .forward issue

From: Rich Teer (rich.teer_at_rite-group.com)
Date: 02/07/04

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    Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 02:00:38 GMT
    
    

    On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:

    > How can I set up a .forward file that forwards mail to the vacation
    > program, but does *not* put a copy of the mail in the mailbox of the
    > user who the mail was sent to? I basically want to set up vacation
    > with a message saying "this account it not read any more, see .... for
    > details of how to find my new email address."
    >
    > The standard .forward created when vacation is run has (assuming
    > username is 'davek')
    >
    > \davek, "/usr/bin/vacation davek"
    >
    > I assumed that dropping the first in the list, so making it like this:
    >
    > "/usr/bin/vacation davek"

    That WOULD seem reasonable...

    Another way to achieve this is to get the admin of the domain
    that's being left to configure Sendmail to do this directly.
    www.sendmail.org most likely has the details. (It might be
    done via the accessdb or something.)

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