brant@manta.pha.pa.us (Brant Cheikes) (09/16/88)
Does anyone have an automatic mail acknowledgement program that works on a UNIXpc? I know these things exist; I've received messages from them. The idea is that when you go away on vacation (f'rinstance), you activate something which will then automatically reply to mail messages as they are received, telling the sender that their message was received, etc. I can imagine doing this with a shell script or C program, but I thought I'd interrogate the net before hacking such a thing together myself. If you've got such a thing and are at liberty to distribute it, why not post it to unix-pc.sources? Thanks to all, Brant P.S. To correct a piece of misinformation I just saw: to perform anonymous Internet FTP, you ftp <site> then login as "anonymous". The password is usually any non-null string, or sometimes "guest". Don't forget to use binary mode when transferring executable files. -b -- Brant Cheikes University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Internet: brant@manta.pha.pa.us, UUCP: bpa!manta!brant
ignatz@chinet.UUCP (Dave Ihnat) (09/17/88)
In article <428@manta.pha.pa.us> brant@manta.pha.pa.us (Brant Cheikes) writes: >Does anyone have an automatic mail acknowledgement program that works >on a UNIXpc? I know these things exist; I've received messages from >them. (...) I can imagine doing this with a shell script or C >program, but I thought I'd interrogate the net before hacking such a >thing together myself. Just a little note here...several years ago, a couple of these made the net rounds. Unfortunately, somebody goosed a message off to his colleague who was on vacation, and before the auto-reply returned activated his own vacation mailer. Which proceeded to bounce an auto-reply to the other vacation mailer, which...well, you get the idea. There have been several posted since then, but make sure that whatever one you may find (mail me if none appear in a few days, and I'll search the archives) keeps a list of auto-recipients and refuses to answer more than once... Dave Ihnat Analysts International Corp. ignatz@homebru.chi.il.us