On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 09:03:28AM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
> As much as I hate these things it seems that we do have a use case for
> one at the present. Ideally this would run as entry in an aliased
> :include: mailing list. I suppose I could just put a simple bash
> script together and call that but I rather suspect this approach would
> in the end prove more time consuming than using some sort of package;
> the simpler the better.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations?
Robust auto-responders require great care.
See RFC3834
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3834
And consider using "vacation" or other carefully designed
auto-responder. Do not roll your own if you're not an expert. A
naive implementation will cause mail loops, and annoy people getting
inappropriate auto-responses.
As for mailing lists, DO NOT include the auto-responder as a
:include: additional recipient. With ":include:" recipients
there's usually an "owner-alias", and the envelope sender will no
be the original sender of the message. You'll want to auto-respond
before that happens:
list: list-responder, list-members
owner-list-members: ...
list-members: :include:/some/file
list-responder: "|/some/robust/auto-responder"
--
Viktor.
