On 5/21/13 1:50 PM, motty cruz wrote: > any suggestions?
Before you go any further, you should read RFC 3834, "Recommendations for Automatic Responses to Electronic Mail": http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3834 ... particularly section 2, which begins (with admirable directness) "An automatic responder MUST NOT blindly send a response for every message received." If you don't consider those recommendations, your script -- if you get it working -- will do things you won't like. As an example: what would your script do if it ever received a message claiming to be from its own "From" address (because you sent yourself a message, or because a spammer forged your own address)? It appears that it would send itself an infinite loop of "On vacation" messages. There are other subtle problems that are difficult to explain here, some of which will cause you to annoy other people on the Internet, not just yourself. This is why people with experience are telling you to use existing software that already takes all of this into account, instead of helping you do something that's universally recognized as unwise. -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies, http://www.tigertech.net/
