A nice autoresponder recipe can be found on the procmailex manual
pages, just type "man procmailex" at the prompt. The "retrive" recipe in
section 6 will do just what you want with some minor edits. Which I'd be
happy to help you with, contact me privately for more.
You might also check to see if vacation is installed as it will do
quite nicely for this purpose. Just type "vacation" at the prompt. If it
installed and you're green as you say, I'd recomend that you use it. Setup
is really easy, "man vacation" will give you everything you need to have
it up and running in a minute or two.
Brent Sims
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Brent Sims http://unionavenue.com brent(_at_)rmi(_dot_)net
"Every dogma has its day" - Israel Zangwill
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On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Jim Reese wrote:
->
->I hope someone can help this raging newbie.
->
->It's a long story which I will not bore you with. The short version
->is that I inhertited a Linux (v4.2) box with procmail v3.2 and I
->know absolutely nothing about this operating system.
->
->Now, I find myself in the position of having to get several
->autoresponders up and running in a hurry. The only information I
->have been able to get locally is "Procmail can do that."
->
->I have searched through my Red Hat Linux Unleashed and there is
->nothing on the subject in all of its 1,000 pages. I have read the
->procmail man pages and am more confused that when I started. I
->really don't know this OS or any of its language or terms.
->
->It looks like a wondersully stable system and I am slowly learning
->things as I encounter different situations. But I don't have the
->luxury of time with this autoresponder thing.
->
->I will need to set up at least two: info@ and support@
->Each will send out a different response.
->
->Is anyone willing to lead me by the hand?
->
->Jim
->