Re: Sendmail & Auto Responders

["David A. Glass" <webdev@mail.xsivedesign.com>]

Thanks

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Sean /The RIMBoy/ wrote:

> 
> Well, for starters, two things to get you going, but may not be the best
> way to do it... put a .forward in your home directory.  In that file,
> point it to a name that is not used on your box, ie
> 
> ralphie@yourdomain.com
> 
> Then, in your /etc/aliases file, enter that user name, and a pipe,
> presumably to a perl script that you have written that emails back the
> person letting them know whatever it is you want them to know.  You could
> also pipe your username to the perl script, but I would just as soon muck
> around with a .forward file rather than mucking around w/ aliases as root.
> It also makes it very easy to enable / disable the autoresponder.  Oh
> yeah, if you do go this route, be sure to type newaliases after updating
> aliases... otherwise sendmail will not know what to do.
> 
> or,
> 
> http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/12/15/913755851.html
> 
> I just did a quick search on freshmeat for autoresponder, and the link
> above is what it returned.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Sean...
> 
> 
> On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, David A. Glass wrote:
> > 
> > Does anybody know how to make an autoresponder??
> > 
> > I can;t seem to find the right file with this info in it..
> 
> Everything you know is wrong,
> Just forget the words and sing along.    --Weird Al
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> 
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