I got only 2 accounts on the machine, but they are virtual users with
all mail being forwarded to another account. Is there a way for
sendmail to keep doing this forward AND send an autoreply at the same
time? I've googled and haven't found anything easy to do this with, I
would have thought sendmail would have supported this, and if it does,
great, how is it done ?


Thanks for any .

sweeneym@gmail.com wrote:
> I got only 2 accounts on the machine, but they are virtual users with
> all mail being forwarded to another account. Is there a way for
> sendmail to keep doing this forward AND send an autoreply at the same
> time? I've googled and haven't found anything easy to do this with, I
> would have thought sendmail would have supported this, and if it does,
> great, how is it done ?
>
>
> Thanks for any .

/bump. still trying to find a solution, this was put on hold for a
while but now it's back

In article <1160750997.265662.121890@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>
"Mike" <sweeneym@gmail.com> writes:
>> I got only 2 accounts on the machine, but they are virtual users with
>> all mail being forwarded to another account. Is there a way for
>> sendmail to keep doing this forward AND send an autoreply at the same
>> time? I've googled and haven't found anything easy to do this with, I
>> would have thought sendmail would have supported this, and if it does,
>> great, how is it done ?

Sendmail has no builtin capability to send auto-replies at all - it's
not really a MTA task. Typically it's done with procmail or some
home-grown script that extracts the sender address and sends the message
(via sendmail).

This method is equally usable for "virtual" users - your specific
requirement of *both* sending an auto-reply and forwarding can be done
via aliases. E.g. if you have the forwarding via virtusertable now:

virtual@your.domain user@some.host

- you can just change that to

virtual@your.domain virtual_your_domain

- end then in aliases:

virtual_your_domain: "|/path/to/autoresponder <args>", user@some.host

--Per Hedeland
per@hedeland.org