Re: [Evolution] auto reply in evolution

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

cheers();

> I was wondering if anybody has set up an auto-reply
> in Evolution and if so how did you do it?
>
> I tried setting up a filter and piping the output through 
> vacation but it didn't seem to work. Has anybody had any luck with
> this?

Sorry, I never tried that and will not -- Evo as a MUA is for managing
the mails. Evo is not intended to run 24/7 and catch the mail.

Use procmail for those things. In the procmail man-pages are
ready-to-use recipes for that purpose.

procmail answers those incoming mails automatically, even when you're
not at your computer using Evo.


OK, ow for some hints:

I would pipe the received mail to a shell sript (preferably Perl) and
let that script generate and send a new mail.

There are a lot of CLI tools, you can use: Just cat a mail into 'mail',
'mailto', 'sendmail', ... or use Perl Modules to send the mail.

A small script should do what you want.


Att: The procmail recipe _does_ filter circulating mails, a small script
will likely _not_. So consider what happens, when you and another guy
both answers automatically all your mail like that...

...guenther


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