Subject: auto-reply

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 11:27:04 +0000 (GMT)

Is it possible to set pine (unix version 3.96) up to auto reply to
messages with a set piece of text.  If this is possible could someone
kindly let me know how it may be done.

J. Smith

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 14:12:10 +0100 (CET)

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  >kindly let me know how it may be done.

Two basic options:

	vacation 
will reply to any mail automatically

	procmail or some other filterin program
will let you set up specific conditions for filtering mail and attaching
texts to the reply.

Best thing to do imo would be to get Nancy McGough's filtering-faq

   	http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/
   		filtering-faq/faq.html
   	http://www.smartpages.com/faqs/mail/filtering-faq/faq.html
   	ftp://ftp.halcyon.com/pub/ii/internet/filtering_mail_faq.txt
   	ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/filtering-faq
               
a) This is a faq, b) there's the apropos command on your system.

Enjoy.

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Robin S. Socha,
Political Science Dept., Bonn University, Bonn

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 17:06:46 -0500

> kindly let me know how it may be done.

    Pine cannot do it.  What you want done is part of the mail delivery
process, and Pine comes into play only after the fact in the mail
reading process.  However, for Un*x systems, there are programs
available which hook into the mail delivery process to do all sorts of
amazing things (if you know how to use them).  Two of the most common
are procmail and filter.  See if they are on your system.  procmail is
incredibly powerful, but it isn't the easiest program to use for its
super-duper features beyond basic mail filtering.  (For more
information, if you have a WWW browser, browse my home page and follow
the links.)

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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