How or where do I set that if someone sends an e-mail to a non-existent address they get a notification?

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If a person sends an e-mail to john.doe@domain.com after John Doe has stopped working for Domain, how do I set so that the person receives the e-mail back with a notification like “This address doesn’t exist in the company” or something? People e-mailing John Doe from the same NNN get a Delivery failure, but how about those who e-mail from outside the NNN?

TIA

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Subject: RE: How or where do I set that if someone sends an e-mail to a non-existent address they get a notification?

I am not sure I know of any settings like that.

However, there are 2 workarounds that may be used

  1. Setting a server mail rule such that if the recipient of the email is John Doe, then you could trigger a delivery failure report. The downside is that you won’t be able to customize the delivery failure report.

  2. You could write an agent that queries the mail.box (seriously wouldn’t recommend this one), that would look for the recipient, and then send a reply to sender notifying them that John Doe is no longer in that domain.

But there does not appear to be a setting that allows one to set that.

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Subject: Agent

The second option is on the right track, but you could make that agent in the user’s mail file instead

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Subject: Agent

If you have removed the person from your domino directory, then people who email that address from outside the NNN should also get a delivery failure. If you have not removed the person from the domino directory, you can set up an agent to auto-reply to all messages sent to that address.

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Subject: Re: Agent

I have removed the person from the domino directory, yes, but those e-mailing him from outside the NNN do NOT receive a delivery failure (I tried with my own external e-mail addy). I’ll look into the possibility of an agent, but I can’t program.

Thanks.

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Subject: Delivery Failure reports

I did a test and got this:

SMTPDSNDeliveryReason (TEXT) : Your message

Subject: test

was not delivered to: noname@notesfloatsmyboat.com

because:

User noname(noname@notesfloatsmyboat.com) not listed in Domino Directory

Is it so simple to just not have them listed and the message bounces?

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Subject: Bingo

That’s what I want to do, but none of our clients and suppliers gets a delivery failure when they e-mail someone who isn’t listed.