send specific NDR message for users in certain OU

Tomas Habarta
2018-01-30T13:27:08Z

That's something you probably want to do on the edge instead of message
store, so a better place might be relocated_maps if you use Postfix. With that
you can easily customize your ldap search base for accounts-to-be-deleted OU...

T.

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 06:53:20PM +0100, lists wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The question can perhaps be made more generic like this:
>
> Can dovecot generate a *specific* NDR (or an autoreply) for accounts
> that meet a specific criterium, such as:
> - user account was found under OU=to-delete,CN=company...
> contrary to the regular location CN=Users,CN=company...
>
> We would like to move to-be-deleted users to this container, before
> actually deleting them. That gives us an easy way to revert, if the
> deletion turns out to be erroneous.
>
> We could do that with via a sieve config for those accounts, but if
> dovecot could send a "delivery failure"-type specific for those
> accounts (with instructions who to contact to revert the situation)
> it would be very easy: only move the user to the specific OU, and
> have the system do the rest.
>
> Can this be done?
>
> (dovecot 2.1.17 on wheezy, yes we know we should upgrade, and we
> also will, but it runs rock solid...)
>
> MJ