Hi,
I'll look into doing that myself as it's a much requested feature. Might
take awhile being new to qmail et al and being a little rusty in my C.
Regards,
Rick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Rick Macdougall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: QmailAdmin and Vpopmail and autoresponder problem
Rick Macdougall wrote:
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> But then what is the use of the autoresponder? It acts as a vacation type
> message, no?
No. It's not for vacation type message.
It's for automatically sending information back to the sender.
Like, "here are the directions to our location and hours we are open".
A vacation package would be really nice. Especially if users could
log into qmailadmin and turn it on/off.
What might be a good change to the autoresponder code would be
to check if the from address = address of the autoresponder.
So it could prevent loops. Just my 2 cents
Ken Jones
>
> and if so, wouldn't the
> ./<username>/Maildir/
> instead of
> &<user>@somedomain.com
> fix the problem?
>
> REgards,
>
> Ric
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Rick Macdougall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 2:48 PM
> Subject: Re: QmailAdmin and Vpopmail and autoresponder problem
>
> Rick Macdougall wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm using the latest version of QmailAdmin, Qmail, vpopmail and
> > autoresponder.
> >
> > I'm having a slight problem I can't seem to wrap my head around using
> > vpopmail and the autoresponder. If mail sent to a vpop user has an
> > autoresponder setup, the autoresponse works, but the original e-mail is
> > bounced or not delivered.
>
> That's your problem. having a pop user and an autoresponder set up
> for the same email address wasn't the design idea.
>
> It's autoresponder OR pop account.
>
> >
> > As far as I can tell from digging around in various mailing lists and
> > archives, this is caused because the format of the .qmail-user file is
as
> > follows
> >
> > | autoresponder x x message.txt directory_for_logging
> > &[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> You'll have a loop here. You are sending the email through the
> autoresponder, and sending a copy to the autoresponder. So each
> time an email goes into the autoresponder, you'll "auto responde it"
> plus send an email back into the autoresponder. Endless loop.
>
> Ken Jones
>
> >
> > I think the problem is the &[EMAIL PROTECTED], which causes the
message
> to
> > be re-injected into qmail and qmail rejects as a duplicate because of
the
> > Delivered-To line is already in the message from the original message.
> >
> > It appears the fix would be to change the second line to something like
> >
> > ./<user>/Maildir/
> >
> > but before I go around changing code, I want to make sure I'm on the
right
> > track and that I don't have a configuration problem.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rick
