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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Automatic E-mail Reponse Date: 6 Jul 1996 01:22:23 -0500 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4rl0mv$td@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <31DAE636.41C67EA6@ix.netcom.com> <4rgmvk$30s@ramses.eurocontrol.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ollivier ROBERT (rbt@eurocontrol.fr) wrote: : [posted and mailer to Jianyu] : In article <31DAE636.41C67EA6@ix.netcom.com>, : Jianyu Wang <jianyu@ix.netcom.com> wrote: : >I am trying to setup an automatic E-mail response for FreeBSD but it : >seems there is no document to show me how to setup. I would like the : >system to automatically execute some commands based on the e-mail : >message contents it receives and response to the sender. Can somebody : Have a look at procmail which is a general mail filtering package. : ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/procmail/ Or ask archie about "majordomo" (it may be a package too). In it's simplest form, you can set up an alias that points to a script in /etc/aliases as in: mytargetuser: "|/usr/local/bin/processmail" -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....