From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 23 04:25:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA19441 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 04:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jumpgate.cpn.org.au (ppp03.dpac.tas.gov.au [147.109.155.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA19417 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 04:24:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpn@dpac.tas.gov.au) Received: from jumpgate.cpn.org.au (jumpgate.cpn.org.au [172.16.1.1]) by jumpgate.cpn.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA00881; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 21:23:45 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from cpn@dpac.tas.gov.au) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 21:23:45 +1000 (EST) From: Carey Nairn X-Sender: cpn@jumpgate.cpn.org.au To: Scott Mitchell cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: mail auto-responders In-Reply-To: <199804231008.LAA16243@hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks, I now have a couple of very good options. cheers, Carey Nairn On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Scott Mitchell wrote: > Oleg V. Naumann said: > >On 22-Apr-98 Carey Nairn wrote: > >> Hi People, > >> > >> I am looking for a program (or the way to set up) to cat the contents of a > >> text file as an automatic mail response. > > > > > > > > man vacation > > > >[skip] > > > > With best wishes > > > >- ---------------------------------- > >E-Mail: Oleg V. Naumann > >Date: 22-Apr-98 > >Time: 10:54:21 > > > >This message was sent by XFMail > >- ---------------------------------- > > > > Or if you want to be a little more selective (responding only to messages > where the subject is 'get file', or whatever), try procmail. The manpages > have examples of how to do this exact thing. > > Scott > > -- > =========================================================================== > Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just > | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" > QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message