Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!pcsbst!torsten
From: torsten@pcsbst.UUCP (Torsten Homeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Autoreply seems broke
Message-ID: <693@pcsbst.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 88 10:16:42 GMT
References: <663@wa3wbu.UUCP> <7230001@hpdtl.HP.COM> <668@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Reply-To: sws4!torsten@pcsbst.UUCP (torsten)
Organization: PCS GmbH, Pfaelzer-Wald-Str. 36, 8000 Muenchen; West-Germany
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In article <668@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
>
>      Yes, I have arepdaemon running. It never seems to "awaken" though
>   and act on anything. And because of it, I never get a reply from the
>   vacationing user. I did discover that Elm 2.1 apparently doesn't
>   let you specify a reply-file. If you type "autoreply filename" it
>   tells you it can't open the filename even if it exsists. Looking at
>   the source shows it wants a file: /etc/autoreply.data. Creating this
>   file solve the complaint but there is still no response from a 
>   vacationing user. I never had any luck getting it to work with 1.7B
>   but it did allow the use of an alternate filename.

	We tried to use arep in 1.2, 1.5 an 1.7B. We never get it to work.
	It seems to have always the same bug in it:

		- parsing the headerlines to find the reply address does not
		  work. It always mails to "From: .." and our mailer dumps it
		  to the super user.
	

	I think that such a function should be handeld by the local mail
	delivery agent like the recently reposted lmail programm.
	It should be easy to hack such a feature in there.
	Its simpler to put a .vacation file (or something else) in your home
	directory and your local mailer will do the rest.


		Torsten.
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