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AUTOREPLY 1L "Elm Version 2.4" "USENET Community Trust"
NAME
autoreply - Automatic mail reply system
SYNOPSIS
autoreply "autoreply off"
autoreply filename
DESCRIPTION
Autoreply\^ is a part of The Elm Mail System
and is designed to enable users to easily set up
an automatic response to all mail they receive. This is
typically during a vacation or some other period of time that
the user is not available to reply to mail (although some
people get enough mail that they have it permanently running
to simply send an "ack" to each message)
The system is quite easy to use... You can type "autoreply" and be informed of your current status in the system (on or off), or "autoreply off" will turn your autoreplying off.
To add yourself to the system, you need merely to compose a form response in a file somewhere, then type "autoreply file" where file is the name of the file.
"SPECIAL NOTE"
For this to function correctly, the program "arepdaemon" must
be running as a daemon in background. This program automatically
checks all the currently enrolled users for new mail in their
mailboxes...
AUTHOR
Elm Development Group
SEE ALSO
"The Elm Users Guide" elm(1L), mail(1), mailx(1)
"BUGS"
Unfortunately, this program isn't too brilliant about identifying
mail that shouldn't be responded to (like mail from other
daemons, or your mother) but that's a more general problem anyway.
Also, occasionally a user will remove themselves from the
autoreply system and the system won't turn their autoreply
off. This is a problem that hasn't been solved yet (obviously
since it's in the "bugs" section!!) and any further information
would be appreciated!
BUG REPORTS TO
Syd Weinstein elm@DSI.COM (dsinc!elm)
COPYRIGHTS
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Derived from Elm 2.0, \*(ct Copyright 1986, 1987 by Dave Taylor