Re: Plugin to manage gone users

On 2010-09-05 21:51:27 +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> I have a small number of users that are no longer using the system, but 
> have no known forwarding address. Thus, I'd like to auto-respond to 
> messages to these users (after spamassassin), but I'd like to respond with 
> a permanent error (550, right?)

551 would be better. But last time I looked, plugins couldn't return
specific codes.

> so that mailing list system can automatically remove these addresses
> from their lists. Furthermore, I'd like to include a long text
> explaining where the user went.
> 
> I'm not familiar enough with SMTP to know if such a text can be included in 
> a 550-message, but if it can, this sounds like a pretty trivial plugin. Has 
> anyone written such a thing?

I use that one:


sub hook_rcpt {
    my ($self, $transaction, $rcpt) = @_;
    
    return DECLINED unless $rcpt->notes('redirect');

    if ($rcpt->notes('redirect') =~ /(.*)\@(.*)/) {
        return DENY, "Mail address disabled; try <" . $rcpt->notes('redirect') . ">";
    } else {
        my ($local, $domain) = $rcpt->address =~ /(.*)\@(.*)/;
        return DENY, "Mail address disabled; try <" . $local . '@' . $rcpt->notes('redirect') . ">";
    }
}


Of course you need another plugin to set the "redirect" note on the
recipient, but that's part of my general address-handling.

	hp

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