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- NAME
- autoreply - Automatic mail reply system
-
- SYNOPSIS
- autoreply
- autoreply off
- autoreply filename
-
- DESCRIPTION
- Autoreply is a part of The Elm Mail System and is designed to enable
- users to easily set up an automatic response to all mail they receive.
- This is typically during a vacation or some other period of time that the
- user is not available to reply to mail (although some people get enough
- mail that they have it permanently running to simply send an "ack" to
- each message)
-
- The system is quite easy to use... You can type "autoreply" and be
- informed of your current status in the system (on or off), or "autoreply
- off" will turn your autoreplying off.
-
- To add yourself to the system, you need merely to compose a form response
- in a file somewhere, then type "autoreply file" where file is the name of
- the file.
-
- SPECIAL NOTE
- For this to function correctly, the program "arepdaemon" must be running
- as a daemon in background. This program automatically checks all the
- currently enrolled users for new mail in their mailboxes...
-
- AUTHOR
- Dave Taylor, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories.
-
- SEE ALSO
- The Elm Users Guide , by Dave Taylor
-
- elm(1L), mail(1), mailx(1)
-
- BUGS
- Unfortunately, this program isn't too brilliant about identifying mail
- that shouldn't be responded to (like mail from other daemons, or your
- mother) but that's a more general problem anyway.
-
- Also, occasionally a user will remove themselves from the autoreply
- system and the system won't turn their autoreply off. This is a problem
- that hasn't been solved yet (obviously since it's in the "bugs"
- section!!) and any further information would be appreciated!
-
- BUG REPORTS TO
- Syd Weinstein elm@DSI.COM (dsinc!elm)
-
- COPYRIGHTS
- (c) Copyright 1986, 1987 by Dave Taylor
- (c) Copyright 1988, 1989, 1990 by The USENET Community Trust
-