2009/5/14 Scott Haneda <talkli...@newgeo.com>: > So If I am getting this correct, auto-reply is not something native to > postfix other than in a very basic form, and I should look to 3rd party > solutions that have matured?
Correct, it is an invention on top of SMTP mail. I blame Exchange and its ilk for leading people to believe that it's all part-and-parcel. An autoresponder is just like a monkey sitting at the user's workstation, replying to all the mail that comes in. You'll notice that the monkey has nothing to do with SMTP or Postfix. I suppose (hypothetically musing) it could have been designed into the protocol, but I bet it'd be so terrible in implementation that SMTP wouldn't be as good (hah!) as it is today.
