Re: auto reply to provide message for closed list

"Julian H. Stacey" <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:35:50 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.majordomo.general
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> All I want to do is close a list and give anyone sending email to the =
> list an automated message to say this list is now closed etc, etc. How =
> can I do this?

Not supported by majordomo as such.  I'd suggest:
	vi /etc/mail/aliases # delete line for that list 
	newaliases
	man adduser
		create a dummy user called name of list
	man vacation
		set up auto responder
	man crontab
	vi /etc/crontab
		set up a periodic truncate script eg
			cp /dev/null /var/mail/list-name

Cheers,
Julian
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