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Jeff,<br>
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Thanks so much.<br>
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As I understand your comments and the perl, I can use redirectstu to
send the email to the new user (as I described in my original post
by using the aliases file) by specifying the "forward" address as a
replacement for "new_address" and -f flag option. I'll try and
convince them to use the "staff" version.<br>
<br>
I never like doing the OOO/vacation thing because it just advertises
email addresses to spammers. I'm not sure what YOUR reasons are for
getting bit, but the above is my reason.<br>
<br>
In the end, I think people who don't make the effort to notify
people on their own are just lazy.<br>
<br>
I think I can get the 3 perl modules with yum, although the Getopt
version on Centos repos are the "-strict" version.<br>
<br>
Again, thanks for the response and files.<br>
<br>
steve<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/21/2012 10:52 AM, Jeff Earickson
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<pre wrap="">Steve,
Since you use sendmail, have I got just the perl scripts for you. See attached.
If you want to see how this script performs in the real world, send
email to <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tjchrist@colby.edu">"tjchrist@colby.edu"</a>,
a person who has left and has a redirect set via redirectstaff.pl.
For redirect+forwarding, see the redirectstu.pl script. However, you
**really** don't want to do this.
Set a redirect and that is it. Forwarding will bite you (or him) at some point.
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Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D
Senior Server System Administrator
Colby College,
4214 Mayflower Hill,
Waterville ME, 04901-8842
207-859-4214 (fax 207-859-4186)
Eastern Time Zone, USA
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On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Steve Campbell <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:campbell@cnpapers.com"><campbell@cnpapers.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I've been asked to do a dual task for one of our users. The user is
retiring and wants all of his email forwarded to another user. He also
wants a message returned to the sender indicating that he is retiring
and that from here on, all email should be addressed to the user his
email is being forwarded to.
I use sendmail, so the forwarding would normally be done in the alias
file. I don't like to do out-of-office requests, but this seems like a
way to handle the message he wants returned to the sender. I'm not sure
both would work at the same time anyway.
I use the user's .procmailrc to handle the OOO stuff.
Can anyone suggest a better way to do this or an opinion on how I'm
thinking of doing this please?
I'd rather the retiring user to have handled the sender's notices before
leaving but that's not going to happen.
Thanks for any input.
steve campbell
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