Hi, __> dpkg -s mailagent Package: mailagent Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: mail Installed-Size: 1140 Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 3.63-1 Depends: libc6, perl, sendmail | smail | mail-transport-agent Description: An automatic mail-processing tool Mailagent allows you to process your mail automatically. This has far more functionality than procmail, and is easier to configure (providing, of course, that you grok perl). As a mail processing tool, this slices, it dices, it ... . Given a set of lex-like rules, you are able to file mails to specific folders (plain Unix-style folders and also MMDF and MH ones), forward messages to a third person, pipe a message to a command or even post the message to a newsgroup. . It is also possible to process messages containing some commands. . You may also set up a vacation program, which will automatically answer your mail while you are not there, but more flexibly than the Unix command of the same name. You only need to supply a message to be sent and the frequency at which this will occur. Some simple macro substitutions allow you to re-use some parts of the mail header into your vacation message, for a more personalized reply. . You may also set up a generic mail server, without the hassle of the lower-level concerns like error recovery, logging or command parsing. . The mailagent is not usually invoked manually but is rather called via the filter program, which is in turn invoked by sendmail. That means you must have sendmail/smail on your system to use this. You also must have perl to run the mailagent scripts. . It is possible to extend the mailagent filtering commands by implementing them in perl and then having them automagically loaded when used.
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