Qmail Autoresponder

Installation

• get it from http://untroubled.org/qmail-autoresponder/
• untar the tarball

 $ make
 # ./installer
 # ./instshow
 # vi /etc/vmailmgr/vdeliver-postdeliver

And make sure it contains:

 #!/bin/sh
 if test -s $MAILDIR/autoresponse/message.txt
 then
   qmail-autoresponder $MAILDIR/autoresponse/message.txt $MAILDIR/autoresponse
 fi

Then

 # /etc/vmailmgr/vdeliver-predeliver

and make sure it contains:

 #!/bin/sh
 /usr/local/bin/vcheckquota

Then

 # chmod a+x /etc/vmailmgr/*

Usage

Put

 |qmail-autoresponder MESSAGE_FILE DIRECTORY

into your

 .qmail

file before other delivery instructions. MESSAGE_FILE is a pre-formatted response, including headers, and DIRECTORY is the directory into which rate-limiting information will be stored. Any instance of “%S” in MESSAGE_FILE will be replaced with the original subject.

Follow these instructions from the vautoresponder file:

1. set MAILDIR to the (virtual) user’s mail directory
2. create a directory “autoresponse” within the user’s mail directory
3. create a file “message.txt” within the users autoresponse directory