Automatic "Server maintenance" reply e-mails?

mmyles · 05-14-2013, 06:13 PM

Hello. I have an e-mail server that I need to take down for the weekend, and want to set up automatic "Server undergoing maintenance" e-mails. All e-mail is being filtered through our MX server, running CentOS 5.9, which will hold the e-mails until the server is back up.

Has anyone heard of a solution to send automatic replies to e-mails sent to this domain?

Leo-G · 05-15-2013, 09:40 AM

Nothing heard of, But what you are looking for is an Auto-responder software which when your server recieves the email sends a reply out, Why do you wanna send that, Don't you have a failover if Emails are that important?

You can add a notice on your site or tell your users to intimidate their senders via auto-responders before the maintenance.

Habitual · 05-15-2013, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by mmyles

Hello. I have an e-mail server that I need to take down for the weekend, and want to set up automatic "Server undergoing maintenance" e-mails. All e-mail is being filtered through our MX server, running CentOS 5.9, which will hold the e-mails until the server is back up.

Has anyone heard of a solution to send automatic replies to e-mails sent to this domain?

A Server Notice of this kind will be unseen if the users are using mail clients.
And what determines "Automatic"? Please explain

Leo-G · 05-15-2013, 10:46 AM

If you know a little scripting then you can modify this script to suit your needs

http://blog.thecodingmachine.com/con...-receives-mail