Re: Sendmail & Auto Responders

[Mike Sullivan <lists@galileo.math.siu.edu>]

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.


This sounds a like the vacaion program:
http://MetaLab.unc.edu/linsearch/lsms/vacation-1.2.0.html

I used to use it under unix, but it does not seem to come with 
red hat linux. 

Mike
SIUC


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