Ok I've created three files .courier .mailfilter and autoreply I've set
permissions of all three files to 700 and the owner is the same
user:group that owns the $HOME. I am also using mail drop due to my
spamassassin requirements though the autoreply doesn't seem to reply?
.courier file contents:
| /usr/lib/courier/bin/maildrop
.mailflter file contents:
FROM='[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
import SENDER
if ($SENDER eq "")
{
SENDER=$FROM
}
cc "./Maildir"
AUTOREPLYFROM=$FROM
`/usr/lib/courier/bin/mailbot -A "X-Sender: $FROM" -A "From:
$AUTOREPLYFROM" -m "./autoreply" $SENDMAIL -t -f ""`
EXITCODE = 0
exit
Autoreply just contains a text message:
n/a
Does anyone notice what I'm missing here?
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bowie
Bailey
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 11:50 AM
To: Thomas von Hassel
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [courier-users] Vacation Notices
From: Thomas von Hassel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Now that summer holidays are comming up i need a quick and dirty
> solution to make auto reply/vacation notice. Courier MTA with mysql
> auth and default delivery. I'm not using the webmail feature.
Quick and dirty...Ok, here ya go!
This is the setup that I use for my accounts that need an autoreply.
For this to work, you need to be using maildrop. You can set it as the
DEFAULTDELIVERY for everyone in '/etc/courier/courierd', or just run it
from '$HOME/.courier' for a particular user. Keep in mind that if you
set DEFAULTDELIVERY to maildrop, it will still be overridden by anything
in '$HOME/.courier'.
In the user's home directory, create a .mailfilter file. Mine looks
like this:
FROM='[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
import SENDER
if ($SENDER eq "")
{
SENDER=$FROM
}
cc "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
AUTOREPLYFROM=$FROM
`/usr/lib/courier/bin/mailbot -A "X-Sender: $FROM" -A "From:
$AUTOREPLYFROM" -m "./autoreply" $SENDMAIL -t -f ""`
EXITCODE = 0
exit
Note that the mailbot command should be all one line.
Create a file called 'autoreply' in the home directory with the text of
the autoreply message. This file can even be an html message if you
include the proper headers at the top. If I'm doing something fancy,
I'll generally create the email in my mail client and send it to my
mailbox. Then I can grab the message file and cut out the message and
necessary headers for the autoreply.
FROM is the address you want the autoreply to be sent from. It does not
necessarily need to be the same as your email address.
To save a copy of the original email to your mailbox or forward it
somewhere else, use the 'cc' line. Note that the original email will be
discarded unless you specifically send it somewhere. You can use
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as above to forward the email or "./Maildir" to save
it to your mailbox. If you want to discard the original email, just
delete the 'cc' line.
SENDMAIL is set in my '/etc/courier/maildroprc' file:
SENDMAIL="/usr/lib/courier/bin/sendmail -f \"$FROM\""
Hmmm... This seems to conflict with the '-f ""' definition in the
.mailfilter file. Hadn't noticed that before. In any case, it seems to
be working fine.
There may be better, cleaner, or even easier ways to do this, but this
is one quick and dirty method and it works well for me.
Bowie
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