[H-GEN] Email auto-forward and auto-respond utility wanted

[David de Groot]

On 13/04/2004, at 12:25 PM, Edwards_Ewan_B at cat.com wrote:

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> Good afternoon all,
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> I've been looking for a utility I can put on our mail server for users
> to set up auto-forward and auto-respond on their email accounts while
> on leave or overseas etc..  This utility needs to be really, really
> simple to use because most of the users are Windows operators who,
> seemingly, can only handle 'gui clicky' things.
>
> The only promising thing that googling has turned up so far is CGIPAF
> (http://staf.patat.org/cgipaf/).  Unfortunately, CGIPAF seems to
> require procmail to work properly.
>
> Does anybody have any additional pointers for where I can go looking,
> or, know of anything that might do the job?  Any assistance will be
> appreciated.

Well you could probably hobble a cgi interface together for Vacation.

http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?vacation

It shouldn't be too hard and would likely do what you want. I believe 
postfix has it's own vacation program (to mirror the functionality of 
sendmail).

Dave