Re: [vps-mail] auto-reply on vps2 Qs SOLVED

[Matt Cohen <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 5:09 PM -0700 2/14/05, Scott Wiersdorf said something about:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 03:50:18PM -0800, Matt Cohen wrote:
> >  How can I tell?  Here's the file, with moe as owner:group and 777
> >  permissions:
> >
> >  -rwxrwxrwx  1 moe  moe     456 Feb 12 10:05 newsletter.reply
>
> How about moe's home directory?
>
>   ls -ld /home/moe

I checked the home directory, i've already been watching the maillog 
which says the email is sent, and did some more digging and came up 
with this:  According to:

http://www.viaverio.com/index.cfm?page_id=326

"The -h option can be added to an autoreply to turn off the X-info 
headers (if you don't know what these are, don't wory(sic) about 
them)."

Then for some reason, I executed the full directive on the command line

% /usr/local/bin/autoreply -f moe@xxxxxxxxxx -h -m 
/home/moe/newsletter.reply -a newsletter@xxxxxxxxxx

and was surprised to get a response of a man page on autoreply..  Did 
some more checking and found this:

"       -h   Display this help page."

Ah ha!  It seems that the web page above needs to be updated (in 
addition to being spellchecked).  Invoking the autoreply program as I 
had been was pulling up the help page every time because I had 
included the -h flag (because I didn't want the X-info headers as I 
didn't want them on my VPS1 account)

Omitting the -h flag from the aliases command and now all works 
peachy-keen.  Reading the help file (its amazing what things you 
learn when you RTFM), I found I can omit the -f flag as well, by 
specifying the 'from' address in the newsletter.reply file.  So my 
new directive is:

cyclereply: moe@xxxxxxxxxx, "|/usr/local/bin/autoreply -m 
/home/moe/newsletter.reply -a newsletter@xxxxxxxxxx"

Scott, can you take care of updating this web page or should I write 
to support about it?

Thanks for the persistency in your helpfullness - it caused me to go 
back and play with it some more myself :)

Matt
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