----- Original Message -----
From: "Wagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Oden Eriksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: QmailAdmin and Vpopmail and autoresponder problem
> Good Morning Rick:
>
> I think i have the solution for your problem.
>
> To solve it i'll have to edit the autorespond.c file and the
> add_forward.html and mod_autorespond.html files.
>
> First of all in the alias.c file:
>
> In the function addautorespondnow() (about line 112)
>
> you have to coment the following lines:
>
> if ( check_local_user(ActionUser)) {
> fprint(actout, "<h2>%s %s</h2>\n", get_html_text("175"), ActionUser);
> addautorespond();
> exit(0);
> }
>
> To coment the line just put // in the begining of the line or you can
delete
> it if you want. Now you can create an autoresponder with the name of a
user.
>
> Add the following lines in the addautorespond function:
>
> if ( strlen(ActionUser) == 0) {
> fprint(actout, "<h2>%s %s</h2>\n", get_html_text("176"), ActionUser);
> addautorespond();
> exit(0);
> }
>
> We need to do it cause if you create or modify an autoresponder and delete
> the autoresponder name all your domain is deleted !!
>
> Add this lines in the modautorespondnow() function (about line 248) too.
>
> if ( strlen(ActionUser) == 0) {
> fprint(actout, "<h2>%s %s</h2>\n", get_html_text("176"), ActionUser);
> addautorespond();
> exit(0);
> }
>
>
> Now you just have to edit the .html files as follows:
>
> Add_autorespond.html => you have to delete the Owner Email Address field
> cause it is not necessary.
>
> Mod_autorespond.html => you have to delete the Modify Autoresponder field
> cause it is not necessary.
>
> And it is ready for use just as you wish, you just have to compile it
again
> to make the changes.
>
> Example of use: for example you have a domain called TEST.COM
> and the following user: USER1, USER2, USER3
>
> with the changes above you can create an
> autoresponder for USER1 (for example) telling that he/she is on a
vacation.
>
> and you can create an autoresponder called INFO
> (for example) with some information, so everyone who sends e-mail for
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] will receive the information you wrote on the autoresponder.
>
>
> I hope it is userfull for you and if you do these changes and have
success,
> plese write me back.
>
> Thank you Wagner and Leandro.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Oden Eriksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Rick Macdougall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:07 AM
> Subject: Re: QmailAdmin and Vpopmail and autoresponder problem
>
>
> > 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
>
