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Subject: Re: Auto reply for Bounce: Admin request?
From: Simon Prendergast <prender @ Roborough . gpsemi . COM>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 08:41:13 GMT
To: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM, amillar @ bolis . sf-bay . org

> > > What I am thinking would be handy is if Resend sent back a message to 
> > > the sender automatically, so they can send the correct subscription 
> > > request right away without waiting for me to get around to it.  
> > > 
> > Could this not be set up so that messages which look like subscription
> > requests are sent to majordomo it can try to process them. 
> 
> I specifically *don't* want to forward the message to Majordomo,
> even if it is a valid command syntax.  This would let the user think
> that they can send subscription requests to the list posting
> address.  I want to force the user to realize that they did the
> wrong thing.  ("Bad user!  Bad!  Bad!" :-)  I just want to also
> inform them automatically what the right thing is, without requiring
> my personal response to do so.
> 
You could write a script to do this. Call it something like wrongAddress.

Add an alias to your aliases file that pipes the bounced message to your script

	bad-address:  "| /apps/majordomo/wrongAddress "

The script could process the mail to get the sender address and send some (polite)
instructions back.

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