I am trying to retire and close down my business.
I have informed all of my closest associates and those who I wish to
continue correspondence with have been given my personal contact
information.
However, I am still getting a fairly large amount of email at my
business address, I had thought of using the "relocated" list to
just tell everybody to b... off, but I am a little worried that
there might be some contacts that I have missed.
You can use the error: transport to send a custom reject message for
any mail sent to that domain.
# transport
example.com error:I'm retired, business closed. Personal email
f...@example.org Thanks for all the fish.
(the above is basically what the "relocated" feature does, it just
responds "user has moved to {your text here}" where your text can be
just about anything, not necessarily an email address)
But a common problem is that end-users often don't read the delivery
error messages -- and some mail systems hide the message from the user.
Does anybody know of a way of receiving the mail and sending an
automatic reply/notice. It would need to apply only to the business
domain(s).
Generally best to avoid autoresponders when possible, since they
also respond to spam with a forged sender address.
That said, if not much spam makes it to your mailbox you can look at
the "vacation" program included with many systems.
Best wishes,
-- Noel Jones
Thanks for all the help. I have used a combination of
check_sender_access where I can add the people/domains I know I don't
want to hear from and dovecot sieve to send a message those who I might
want to stay in contact with.
Special thanks to Noel Jones for the text of my error message.
