From: Thomas von Hassel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Now that summer holidays are comming up i need a quick and dirty
> solution to make auto reply/vacation notice. Courier MTA with mysql
> auth and default delivery. I'm not using the webmail feature.
Quick and dirty...Ok, here ya go!
This is the setup that I use for my accounts that need an autoreply.
For this to work, you need to be using maildrop. You can set it as
the DEFAULTDELIVERY for everyone in '/etc/courier/courierd', or just
run it from '$HOME/.courier' for a particular user. Keep in mind
that if you set DEFAULTDELIVERY to maildrop, it will still be
overridden by anything in '$HOME/.courier'.
In the user's home directory, create a .mailfilter file. Mine looks
like this:
FROM='[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
import SENDER
if ($SENDER eq "")
{
SENDER=$FROM
}
cc "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
AUTOREPLYFROM=$FROM
`/usr/lib/courier/bin/mailbot -A "X-Sender: $FROM" -A "From:
$AUTOREPLYFROM" -m "./autoreply" $SENDMAIL -t -f ""`
EXITCODE = 0
exit
Note that the mailbot command should be all one line.
Create a file called 'autoreply' in the home directory with the text
of the autoreply message. This file can even be an html message if
you include the proper headers at the top. If I'm doing something
fancy, I'll generally create the email in my mail client and send it
to my mailbox. Then I can grab the message file and cut out the
message and necessary headers for the autoreply.
FROM is the address you want the autoreply to be sent from. It does
not necessarily need to be the same as your email address.
To save a copy of the original email to your mailbox or forward it
somewhere else, use the 'cc' line. Note that the original email will
be discarded unless you specifically send it somewhere. You can use
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as above to forward the email or "./Maildir" to
save it to your mailbox. If you want to discard the original email,
just delete the 'cc' line.
SENDMAIL is set in my '/etc/courier/maildroprc' file:
SENDMAIL="/usr/lib/courier/bin/sendmail -f \"$FROM\""
Hmmm... This seems to conflict with the '-f ""' definition in the
.mailfilter file. Hadn't noticed that before. In any case, it seems
to be working fine.
There may be better, cleaner, or even easier ways to do this, but
this is one quick and dirty method and it works well for me.
Bowie
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