[wplug] users sending to wrong email address

Pat Barron pat at tiderium.com
Thu Jan 3 14:08:23 EST 2008


On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Kevin Squire wrote:
> I was wondering if I could edit my /etc/hosts file on the mail server
> (that is all it is - a mail server) to point pavcs.blackboard.org to an
> internal machine ... or some other solution to speed up (and therefore
> reduce load) the "timed out" message.
>
> I still want users to get the error message... let them know they are
> doing something wrong - so simply redirecting is not OK in this case.
> Just want to speed the process along some.

If you're running sendmail, set up a rule (or a "mailertable" entry) that 
directs "<anything>@pavcs.blackboard.org" to the "error" mailer, and 
returns an error message like "You probably meant to say 
pavcs.blackboard.com instead"...

--Pat.


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