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by Jo » Tue, 06 Feb 1996 04:00:00

I was wondering if at all possible to set-up something so that when
someone sends me mail it replies them back with a message.. Any help
would be appreciated!

Joe

by **Vaclav Sklena** » Wed, 07 Feb 1996 04:00:00

If you're using Un*x, the solution isn't too hard to make it happen:
in your home directory use file .forward (see man forward), in which you should
find lines
\your_login_name
| respond

if doesn't exist, just create one.
respond is a full name of script. On standart input it will get incoming
message.
The very first line will be in form
From name_of_sender time_stuff
all you have to do is get name_of_sender, you can try in shell
NAME=`head -1 | cut -d" " -f 2`
and finally
cat reply_mail.txt | mail ${NAME}
will send mail to ${NAME}.
In all your scripts, use full paths, because if will run under sendmail env and
this isn't very rich in PATH.

Vaclav Sklenar
--
Vaclav Sklenar, student of math
http://www.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~vskl2309/

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