Subject: Auto replying of emails?

From: [email-masked] (Kid Eternity)
Date: 14 Jan 1996 09:26:58 GMT

I'd like to know if there's any means to configure Pine to auto reply 
emails with a certain word in an email's subject line or body text; ie, 
an email auto responder.

All help is greatly appreciated.

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 18:47:56 -0500

On 14 Jan 1996, Kid Eternity wrote:

: I'd like to know if there's any means to configure Pine to auto reply 
: emails with a certain word in an email's subject line or body text; ie, 
: an email auto responder.

    No.  Pine will not do this.  You have to use a mechanism which gets 
hold of the mail _before_ Pine does.  A widely used tool for Unix systems 
is procmail.

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From: [email-masked] (Dean Pentcheff)
Date: 15 Jan 1996 20:19:51 -0500

>emails with a certain word in an email's subject line or body text; ie, 

No.  Pine is a mail user agent (MUA), in charge of presenting mail to
you, and helping you format outgoing mail messages.  Reshuffling mail
automatically is the job of mail delivery agents (MDAs).

One very useful program for presorting mail is called "procmail".  You
can run it via an entry in your ".forward" file (all of which is
covered in its documentation).  Using procmail you can sort incoming
mail into different mailboxes, process it in arbitrary ways, and
generate outgoing email responses based on incoming mail messages.
Procmail can be used as the basis for simple mail sorting, on up to
complete mailing list management systems (for which see the related
software SmartList, available at the same site).

Code for procmail can be found at:

	ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

in directory:

	pub/packages/procmail/procmail.tar.gz

-Dean
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