Yeah this is similar to what we had before vpopmail.... vpopmail does
something though that makes qmail break and create a loop
John
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To: "John Van Boxtel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: Autoresponders
> hi
>
> did you try something like this?
> qmail-username:
>
> |/usr/local/bin/autorespond 10 10 .auto.txt .autolog
> /username/Maildir/
>
> this worked for me (however with stock qmail, no vpopmail, so you probably
have to try
> it.)
>
> greetz & hope it helps
>
> Flavio
>
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2000 08:46:42 -0700, John Van Boxtel said:
>
> > Sorry for double posting but I never got any replies the first time
> > around...
> > If anyone has ANY comments on this please make them, as if I don't get
any
> > responses I will take it as no one being interested and my problem
being a
> > non issue to others (and thus if i find a solution or right a new
autoreply
> > I won't have to GPL it)
> >
> > Once again...
> >
> > Does anyone know about any autoresponders that allow one account to
> > autorespond AND save the message into their maildir or mbox? All the
ones
> > that I have tried with vpopmail seem to cause loops on the first
message
> > when trying to deliver to one account.
> >
> > As a work around, I have created a perl cgi script that users can use
to
> > turn autoreplies on and off, but all it is really doing is deleting
their
> > account, creating a new account, and adding an autorespond with the
same
> > name as the old account that sends mail to the new account. Turning it
off
> > does the reverse.
> >
> > The perl script does havea flaw, it deletes all hte messages that have
not
> > been "popped" out, so I was going to work on making it so that it will
move
> > all messages in the mbox, or maildir to the temp
> > account, and all the messages from the temp account back to the
recreated
> > user account.
> >
> > The thing that has stopped this from being ready is I can't
> > figure out why some accounts are created in a "0" directory in
vpopmail, and
> > others are in the root of the domain's directory. As soon as I figure
that
> > out or write in a way to parse the vpasswd file easily for the
directory of
> > the
> > maildir. Any ideas about the "0" directory?
> >
> > John Van Boxtel
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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