Re: auto reply to provide message for closed list

["Malcolm Bodger" <M . Bodger @ westminster . ac . uk>]

Title: Re: auto reply to provide message for closed list

Thanks Julian - I'll give it a try.

 

Regards,

Malcolm.

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From: Julian H. Stacey [mailto:jhs @ berklix . com]
Sent: Tue 11/08/2009 15:35
To: Malcolm Bodger
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
Subject: Re: auto reply to provide message for closed list

> 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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