Auto reply mail software [CLOSED]

bumpert · Last edited by bumpert on Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:55 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi,
i want to find a program that coul;d be use to auto reply to mail, example when i'm in vacation. I use thunderbird mail client but i don't have this feature.

thx
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Little Nemo · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:03 pm Post subject:

You could do it in procmail. "man procmailex" gives an example of setting this up.

bumpert · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 6:07 pm Post subject:

i need to do this on a remote imap server, sorry for the lack of information
thx
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Little Nemo · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 11:34 pm Post subject:

In that case Perl's Mail::IMAPClient and Net::IMAP::Simple are your friends.

Edit: Oops, I confused your problem with someone else's. If you don't have access to the server where your mail comes in, how do you expect auto-reply to work? You'd need a machine that's regularly checking for new mail on the remote server and send auto-reply messages whenever something has arrived. Normally, though, an auto-reply mechanism would be installed on the machine where your mail is coming in.

j-m · Retired Dev Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 975

Ah. Just don´t do it, don´t do it, don´t do it. This is absolutely unsuitable nowadays. :roll:

You are autoreplying to tons of spammers as well. You are autoreplying to tons of DSNs from misconfigured antivirus/antispam tools. Pure waste of time and bandwidth. Period.

Little Nemo · Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 7:36 am Post subject:

I agree. Auto-reply should only be used if you have a perfectly working spam filter installed. This is usually not the case if you don't have 100 % control over your mail server.

I never use auto-reply anyway, as I try to browse my mail regularly even when I'm away from the office. For those colleagues of mine who insist on an auto-reply feature, I make sure it's in a procmail recipe after spam filtering (which is surprisingly reliable at our site).

bumpert · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:55 am Post subject:

didn't need this anymore, thx
i'm leaving this topic
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