Topic: autoresponder

[Sergei Slobodov]

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone had setup a vacation autoresponder with e-smith 4.1 or higher? I found a contrib package by Daniel van Raay, but it is said to have been tested for 4.0.1 only, so I'm afraid to try it on 4.1 for fear of breaking something?

Any advice?

Thanks,
Sergei

[pkidd]

Sergei Slobodov wrote:

> >I'm wondering if anyone had setup a vacation autoresponder with e-smith 4.1
>or higher? I found a contrib package by Daniel van Raay, but it is said to
>have been tested for 4.0.1 only, so I'm afraid to try it on 4.1 for fear of
>breaking something?
>

It doesn't break anything, but it doesn't work in 4.1.x, at least not
straight out of the RPM.  It worked very nicely in 4.0.x, but the
authour has said it needs revision for 4.1.x.  It seems very simple to
set up manually but it's eluded newbie me so far, something in
permissions or paths may have changed.

Peter Kidd

[pkidd]

from the dev-info list

Managed to get e-smith-vacation-0.1-1 on e-smith 4.1.1 (will be upgrading
to 4.1.2 very soon).  I got the auto-response confirmation by adding the option -j to the vacation
" | /usr/local/bin/vacation -j username"

I think this option enables reply to all senders.

Thanks for helping.

Best regards,
Boon Kiat

On Thursday 10 May 2001 09:25, Daniel van Raay wrote:
> e-smith-vacation-0.1-1 was written for e-smith 4.0.x it will most
> likely not work on the 4.1.x versions of e-smith.
> I plan to rewrite it for 4.1.x (and have done for a while) but have not
> found the time yet...
>
> > I enabled vacation for some local users and tested by emailing
> > to their email account. The mail arrived but I failed to get any auto
> > response.
> >
> > My understanding of the vacation on qmail involves
> > 1. setting up ~/.vacation.msg in user home directory
> > 2. setting up ~/.qmail to include the following line
> >    " | /usr/local/bin/vacation username "
>
> That is correct.  Note that if you do this manually the e-smith
> manager will clobber it if/when you modify the user account.
>
> The vacation program will not send an automatic response to
> yourself so you cannot send yourself a message and hope to get
> an auto-reponse.  It will also not repond to root, mailer-daemon,
> postmaster, *-request, etc.
>
> Another reason that vacation will not respond to an email is if it
> thinks the email was sent to an address that is not the local user.
> If you are sending messages to an alias or to a virtual domain, the
> vacation program will ignore it.
>
> To get around this, create a file ~/.vacation.aliases and in it list the
> address(es) that would be considered the users email address.
>
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Boon Kiat
>
> Daniel van Raay

[Sergei Slobodov]

How much work would be involved in modifying the user template to add "on vacation till" line, and have the template expansion script to create all the necessary files, such as .vacation.msg, .vacation.aliases (generated from the list of user aliases and virtual domains), .qmail?

Alternatively, it would be user-editable, like password change... Just go to www.yourdomain.com/e-smith-vacation, enter you password and edit your vacation message.

Am I dreaming?

[Kirrily Robert]

Someone's written a contrib module for this.  You can see it at http://www.e-smith.org/contrib/modules_search.php?op=searchResults

I haven't used it so I don't know how good it is, but it's certainly worth checking out.  My guess is that it should do what you want with little or no modification.

K.

[pkidd]

it works great in 4.0x, but needs a little work for 4.1x (-j and/or permissions,search phorum) and is (as yet) accessed from the manager panel not user direct

[raycheng]

hi , anyone can advise me , that there is a auto responder for sme server 6.0/

Thank
Raymond
newbees

[gbaird]

I think the user-manager contrib adds a vacation mail
link in server-manager that will work

[nald]

where can i download the vacation mail or autoresponder for SME 6.0?

[byte]

you can dl http://www.dungog.net/sme/files/userpanel/

under the usermanage you shall have vacation/autoresponder....works well with 6

[nald]

thanks bytes...i download the userpanel and i was able to utilize the vacation mail...