Rick Macdougall writes:
> 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.
>
One idea is to make a new maildir to pile up the mail in instead of just
forward the incoming mail. That maildir should mave the same name as the
autoresponder. The dot qmail file should in that case contain.
User: john
Domain: test.com
Dot qmail file:
|autorespond 10000 5 help_message help_autorespond
/home/vpopmail/domains/test.com/john/.help_autorespond/Maildir
What do you think?
>
> ----- 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
>
>
--
Kindest regards // Oden Eriksson
