Autoresponding

Autoresponding

Post by Scott Smit » Mon, 08 Feb 1999 04:00:00



I am looking for a way to automatically respond to certain email
messages.  The situation:  A user on one web site clicks a button to
send a request for more info from another web site.  Right now, someone
has to respond to the request manually.  I would like to have my Redhat
Linux box automatically respond when the message is received.  I know
this is common,  I just need some direction as to what program allows
this.  Perhaps I need to write scripts to perform what I need done.  I
would like my Redhat box to check for new mail, autorespond to the
proper messages, then forward the remaining messages to a user on my
internal LAN.
Could anyone point me in the right direction of documentation, programs,
methods, etc?

Thanks in advance

Scott Smith

 
 
 

Autoresponding

Post by snevel+use.. » Tue, 09 Feb 1999 04:00:00



> I am looking for a way to automatically respond to certain email
> messages.  The situation:  A user on one web site clicks a button to
> send a request for more info from another web site.  Right now, someone
> has to respond to the request manually.  I would like to have my Redhat
> Linux box automatically respond when the message is received.  I know
> this is common,  I just need some direction as to what program allows
> this.  

Check out procmail (man procmail, man procmailrc and man procmailex)

It'll do everything you want.

Simeon

 
 
 

1. How to write an autorespond program

I've noticed that many sites have this capability to send different files
in response to different requests in the subject field.

How can that be done? A sample script would be greatly appreciated.

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