This one time, at band camp, Russell Coker said: > Another option is to receive the entire message, accept it for delivery but > instead of a 25x give a 55x code with a message saying "this message was > delivered, but please note that the account holder is on vacation". > > These methods should allow the vacation message to reliably go only to the > originator of the message (or to no-one if it's a spam). However they do > require that a new proxy program be written to receive the mail as no > existing software (AFAIK) is capable of doing it.
I think you can do something like this with /etc/aliases, although I am no expert. exim uses a real-$local_part in the standard configuration to bypass aliasing, so an entry could be added like: testuser: real-testuser, :fail: On vacation Just tested and this is what I see: 2004-01-10 22:44:23 1AfWWV-0000dZ-Mc <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=steve P=local S=313 I send the message with mail 2004-01-10 22:44:23 1AfWWV-0000dZ-Mc ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=system_aliases: It generates an error 2004-01-10 22:44:23 1AfWWV-0000dZ-Mc => testuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=real_local T=maildir_home And then gets really deliverd to testuse 2004-01-10 22:44:23 1AfWWV-0000dc-Rh <= <> R=1AfWWV-0000dZ-Mc U=Debian-exim P=local S=1102 2004-01-10 22:44:23 1AfWWV-0000dZ-Mc Completed 2004-01-10 22:44:24 1AfWWV-0000dc-Rh => steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=procmail T=procmail_pipe 2004-01-10 22:44:24 1AfWWV-0000dc-Rh Completed And the bounce goes to me with the text noted. I don't know what your MTA allows, but this works here. HTH, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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