Bug#292667: ITP: autoreply -- A safe, rate-limited autoresponder
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: autoreply Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Giles Lean * URL : http://www.nemeton.com.au/sw/autoreply/ * License : BSD Description : A safe, rate-limited autoresponder Autoreply is a simple autoresponder useful for replying to email upon receipt. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-386 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#292667: ITP: autoreply -- A safe, rate-limited autoresponder
Hi Chris! You wrote: > Autoreply is a simple autoresponder useful for replying to > email upon receipt. How is this different from vacation? BTW: please fix your clock. -- Kind regards, ++ | Bas Zoetekouw | GPG key: 0644fab7 | || Fingerprint: c1f5 f24c d514 3fec 8bf6 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a2b1 2bae e41f 0644 fab7 | ++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#292667: ITP: autoreply -- A safe, rate-limited autoresponder
Good idea. > * Package name: autoreply > Version : 1.2 > Upstream Author : Giles Lean > * URL : http://www.nemeton.com.au/sw/autoreply/ > * License : BSD > Description : A safe, rate-limited autoresponder > > Autoreply is a simple autoresponder useful for replying to > email upon receipt. I might use this package. Good luck. pgphCN15ktj3v.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#292667: ITP: autoreply -- A safe, rate-limited autoresponder
Hi Bas, How is this different from vacation? 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. 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. BTW: please fix your clock. 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. Thanks for your interest in this package. -- Chris Sacca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#292667: [Fwd: Re: Bug#292667: ITP: autoreply -- A safe, rate-limited autoresponder]
Forgot to send to the ITP bug Msg follows -- Chris Sacca - --- Begin Message --- Hi Bas, How is this different from vacation? 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. 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. BTW: please fix your clock. 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. Thanks for your interest in this package. -- Chris Sacca --- End Message ---
