* On 27 Oct 2011, Jostein Gogstad wrote: > > Anyone heard of a script that does something similar? Do you think it falls > under the responsibility of the MUA?
I think that sounds like a task management / trouble-ticketing system. Typically a reply to an e-mail is not the exact result I'm looking for; it's "I'll take care of that" or "I need more details" or something similar. I wouldn't want to automate that. You could implement something like this with procmail and a relatively simple script. Trap incoming mail; if there's an X-Fake-Boomerang: header, put a row in a database[1] consisting of the message-id, the timestamp, the address of the person you expect to respond, and the amount of time they have to do so. If there's an In-Reply-To or References header, look in the database and remove any rows for that message-id from that sender. Then write a cron job to look for rows where commit time + duration > current time, and send a ping to the expected respondent. [1] Where "database" means any relational system you can devise and use in a simple script. -- David Champion • d...@uchicago.edu • IT Services • University of Chicago
