Auto response

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Re: Auto response by davorg (Chancellor) on Sep 07, 2001 at 16:51 UTC
A lot depends on exactly what your architecture is, but you could probably do something using Simon Cozen's Mail::Audit module. -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> Perl Training in the UK <http://www.iterative-software.com>	[reply]
Re: Auto response by jj808 (Hermit) on Sep 07, 2001 at 17:00 UTC
Assuming you are running UNIX/sendmail, add an entry to the /etc/aliases file with a pipe to your Perl program, e.g. `autoresponder "\|/path/to/your/perlscript.pl"` Rebuild the aliases file (with the 'newalias' command), then any emails sent to autoresponder@your.domain will call your script. The email message can be read from standard input to get the From: header, then open a pipe back to sendmail to send a reply. Hope this helps, JJ	[reply] [d/l]