Hi Bas,
Autoreply is pretty similar to vacation, but hold some distinct advantages over it, at least for my deployment. This package makes running a vacation-like service more secure, and requires less attention from the system administrator.How is this different from vacation?
The main features that distinguish autoreply from vacation are:
* As opposed to vacation that is per-user replys, autoreply can reply with many different messages via a procmail recipe * It remembers who it has replied to recently, and won't reply to them again within a specified interval * It has a list of addresses that it will not respond to (MAILER-DAEMON, majordomo, listserv, etc) * It examines headers, checking them for mailing lists, and does not reply if it determines the mail is from a mailing list * In case these features are insufficient autoreply also has a rate limiter so that it will not send more than a specified amount of replies in a given time. The rate and interval are both configurable.
Hopefully that is enough to convince you of the merits of autoreply over vacation. If you have any other questions, I would be glad to answer them.
Although I find this terrible to admit, my clock was fine, I just had a broken installation of postfix so the message sat in my queue for a couple weeks before being sent. This is also why I merged #292666 and #292667.BTW: please fix your clock.
Thanks for your interest in this package.
-- Chris Sacca
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