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From: Thomas Schenk <tschenk@unisql.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mailer Bot
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:59:12 -0500
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Patrick Sonnek wrote:
> 
> I want to set up an alias that can auto-reply a message back to the
> sender.  does anyone have something that would work for this?
> 
> Joe@aol.com sends e-mail to info@soncom.com
> 
> soncom.com::
> /etc/aliases contains
> 
> info  : | autorep </pub/text/info.txt
> 
> Joe@aol.com receive automatice reply to his request.
> 
> I sure would appreciate the help.
> 

See if you can find mailagent.  This program can do what you are asking
and a whole lot more.  I use it to handle the various mailing lists that
I belong to.  The mail from each mailing list is automagically
undigested and stored in it's own folder.  I also use mailagent to
autoreply to messages from our web server forms.  Requires perl be
available on your system.

Tom Schenk