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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
Dave Taylor, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories.
SEE ALSO
The Elm Users Guide , by Dave Taylor
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
(c) Copyright 1986, 1987 by Dave Taylor
(c) Copyright 1988, 1989, 1990 by The USENET Community Trust