Re: Mail Bot?

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@pilgrim.umass.edu>]

Hi,

	There are multiple solutions.
	a) mailagent, a very powerfull mail handling package, can do
	   this with ease, but is probably overkill unless you already
	   use it, (you could also easily configure the frequency of
	   the replies, if needed, and have the full power of perl to
	   trigger whatever else you want).
	b) procmail, though not as powerfull as the above, could
	   probably handle this (I don't know, I jumped to mailagent
	   ages ago).
	c) You could use vacation, which is also quite flexible about
	   reply frequencies.
	d) sendmail 8.7.x has a redirect directive in the alias file,
	   which can send mail back for any user.  This is the
	   simplest to set up, if you already use sendmail, but is
	   rather simplistic, in that you can't have it send just one
	   message per day/week/whatever.

		manoj

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