Hello,
I want to set up an auto responder. For example when a user goes in vacation I want an autoresponder to send an email to the sender with this information.
How can I do this quickly?

I use sendmail as the mail server.


Thanks,
ddaas

I found out that I can do that with vacation program.
So, I installed vacation-1.2.6.1-3.i386.rpm, created ~/.vacation.msg with the fallowing content:

Subject: away from my mail

I will not be reading my mail for a while.
Your mail concerning "$SUBJECT"
will be read when I'm back.


Then I created ~/.forward:
\username_who_is_in_vacation, "|/usr/bin/vacation username_who_is_in vacation"



I ran: #/usr/bin/vacation -I


Despite all these, it doesn't work.

I'am using sendmail V8.12.

Do you know why? What can I do?


thanks,
ddaas

I think that you must include as first line in your vacation message a "From: yourname@yourdomain.com"
Also take a look at your mail logs to see if you find the reason that vacation does not work.

the problem was that I use an alias. The ~/.forward file had to have the following line: \username, "|/usr/bin/vacation -a alias@yourdomain.com username"

Now, everything works just fine.


ddaas