Re: [cobalt-developers] Autoresponders...

["Michael" <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the explanation..  Definitely makes sense now.

Michael


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Werby" <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Autoresponders...


> Michael <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We are having problems with receiving an autoresponse on one of our
> domains.
> > We received this reply from a tech support person but it doesn't seem
like
> > it makes sense.  Can anyone confirm this?
> >
> > "This is happening because the Vacation Auto-Responder only send out one
> > mesg., Then after a couple of weeks will purge a db that contains the
> email
> > addresses and will send them again."
>
> This is standard behavior.  The vacation autoresponder is not a true
> autoresponder.  It is designed to let people emailing you know that you
are
> on vacation.  If you're on vacation for a few days it would be irritating
to
> get an email back telling me you're on vacation every time I email you so
by
> default the Cobalt vacation autoresponder notifies the sender only once
and
> won't notify them again until 7 days have lapsed and I email you again.
>
> If you want, you can edit /usr/local/sbin/vacation.pl and change 604800 (#
> of seconds in a week) to a much lower value.  You could even change it to
1
> so that in effect the vacation autoresponder becomes a true autoresponder.
> If you do that your users will likely have a lot of irritated friends and
> associates though.
>
> If you really want a true autoresponder, your best bet is to use procmail.
> procmail is a great program.  It can be used to route emails to
> users/folders, create an email file server, autoresponders and much more.
> You'll just need to locate a procmail recipe for an autoresponder.
Setting
> up procmail and installing or writing a procmail autoresponder is not
> exactly an easy task if you're not very Linux-savvy.  If you need
assistance
> with this you can contact me off-list, though I can't promise I'll have
the
> time to help.  You may want to read more on procmail at
> http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/users/reriksso/procmail/mini-faq.html to get
> started.
>
> Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}
>
>
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