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Hi Bas,
How is this different from vacation?
Autoreply is pretty similar to vacation, but hold some distinct
advantages over it, at least for my deployment. This package makes
running a vacation-like service more secure, and requires less attention
from the system administrator.
The main features that distinguish autoreply from vacation are:
* As opposed to vacation that is per-user replys, autoreply can
reply with many different messages via a procmail recipe
* It remembers who it has replied to recently, and won't reply to
them again within a specified interval
* It has a list of addresses that it will not respond to
(MAILER-DAEMON, majordomo, listserv, etc)
* It examines headers, checking them for mailing lists, and does not
reply if it determines the mail is from a mailing list
* In case these features are insufficient autoreply also has a rate
limiter so that it will not send more than a specified amount of
replies in a given time. The rate and interval are both configurable.
Hopefully that is enough to convince you of the merits of autoreply over
vacation. If you have any other questions, I would be glad to answer them.
BTW: please fix your clock.
Although I find this terrible to admit, my clock was fine, I just had a
broken installation of postfix so the message sat in my queue for a
couple weeks before being sent. This is also why I merged #292666 and
#292667.
Thanks for your interest in this package.
-- Chris Sacca
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