[H-GEN] Is there any way to use autoresponders for email inLinux?

[Martin Pool]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Martin Pool <martinp at mincom.com>)

Mark Suter wrote:

> > Is there any way to use autoresponders for email in Linux? Sorry to be a
> > little indefinite with this question, but I've been asked to look into this
> > by my boss and I thought I might use the collective knowledge of the group
> > to help me in my quest! Any URL's or key words I could search for would be
> > much appreciated! Oh, and also, anyone know of any good docs on running
> > Linux majordomo? TIA. Cheers!
> 
> Procmail is a tool that lets you do almost anything with Email.
> 
>     http://www.procmail.org/

The exim <http://www.exim.org/> mail server has a very good built-in
filtering and autoresponder system with a more readable configuration
syntax than procmail.  I think it has a 'vacation' command.  exim is the
default MTA/MDA on Debian and some other systems.

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