NAME

autorespond —

simple autoresponder for qmail

SYNOPSIS

autorespond time num message dir

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the autorespond command. This manual page was written for the

Debian
  GNU/Linux

distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

autorespond sends an automatically generated response to emails for given address(es). It catches simple situations such as mail from a mailer-daemon, empty envelope sender, bulk precedence headers, etc.

time: amount of time to consider a message (in secs)
num: maximum number of messages to allow within time secs
message: the filename of the message to send
dir: the directory to hold the log of messages

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Sam Johnston ⟨samj@debian.org⟩, for the

Debian
  GNU/Linux

system (but may be used by others). It was converted to mdoc(7) format by Peter Pentchev ⟨roam@FreeBSD.org⟩ for use by the FreeBSD port of autorespond.