Catch-all autoresponder

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SanderdeJ

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I want to create an autoresponder for my catch-all adres.
Ofcourse this is simple to do but i would like it to respond to which adress the message was send.

This same thing can be done by setting the catch-all on Fail mode. Unfortunatly the message will be in English and I want it to be Dutch.

Anyone know a way? (i cann't change anything in the code because i'm only a user which has no access too the code)

Thnx!
 
I'm not sure what you want to do because fail doesn't send an email back. It simply tells the sending server it won't accept the email. The language/verbage is defined by the server administrator in the server's exim.conf file.

Do you want to actually create a mesage and send it? If so you can create a program (perl would be a good language to use) and forward all emails to the catchall address through that program.

However if you do that you'll in effect turn the server into a spambox; it'll send a lot of spam to forged senders. If you had an account on one of our servers and did that you'd be in violation of our terms of service. Not only would we terminate you, but you'd owe us a lot of money for each spam your program caused to be sent.

Can you explain further exactly what it is you want to do?

Jeff
 
thnx for the reply cause it made me looking at it from a different view.

The problem was that all the e-mail adresses have been changed. Therefor there are still people who are mailing to un-existing adresses.

What i would like to do is that those people will get a message telling them that the adress no longer exists and where they can send there mail to.

After you're reply is start thinking about writing a program for doing this task instead of letting directadmin do it.

I will try to write a program which will determin if a mail is in Dutch (to make sure i'm not sending spam) and if so will reply with a mail. This way i will get all the mail but won't have to read it.

Thnx for the help!
 
Or of course if you know the addresses you can create autoresponders for each of the old ones.

Jeff
 
That's the problem, i don't know :p

At this moment i've set my own adress as catch-all so i can look for e-mails that aren't spam. The only problem is that i'm receiving about 400 e-mails a day.

So if you've got any other solutions i would like to know them and if not i will have to write my program too do the job.
 
Cant you just redirect the old domain to the new one? If it is setup as a domain pointer. Then you can turn on catch-all
 
The domain hasn't change, just all the e-mails. Unfortunatly they have lost the list with all the old adresses. So i can't just make forwarders or anything like that...
 
Well the way you are doing it now is probably best. If you can gather a list of all the known addresses then you can make autoresponders for them.

Setting up catchall with an auto reply would be a bad idea though.
 
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