[Gllug] Email Autoresponders

[Ryan Cartwright]

2009/1/17 Martin A. Brooks <martin at hinterlands.org>:
> On 17/01/2009 14:05, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Notwithstanding the general feeling that we don't much like
>> autoresponders... suppose one has been asked to implement one - I'm
>> looking for recommendations.
>>
>> I'm using exim 4.63 as the MTA.
>>
>> The requirement is that each user can easily set or unset an
>> autoresponse of their choice.
>>
>
> I would use the aged but entirely servicable "vacation".

Agreed - I have Exim and use vacation with around 140 users. They are
virtual users so no home directories to put the vacation files in.
What I do is have Exim look for a file vacation_msg.<username> which
in turn is set by users via a perl script on our Intranet (hosted on
the same server). List detection and single responses to the same
senders within 7 days : it works a treat. The users can also set a
"return" date which is checked by a cron job and any expired vacation
messages are removed.

cheers
Ryan
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Ryan Cartwright
Equitas IT Solutions
http://www.equitasit.co.uk
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