email server

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Enrique Arredondo propounded (on Mon, May 09, 2005 at 08:09:37AM -0700):
| How Can I make an automatic email responce system so that if somebody 
| sends an email to quote at blabla.com  my system gets that request, then 
| filepro runs a report and generates the information and then it's sent 
| back to the originator.
| 
| I'm using SCO unix 5.0.6 and MMDF

You can do anything you want with a piece of email.  Sending the same
reply to everyone is a no-brainer.  Sending "I'm on vacation" replies
has been done for years, and my system with simple scripts handles email
to certain aliases here and converts it to a Usenet posting.

But what structure do you require to the email to have?  Unless you know
its format ahead of time, how in the world will you use sed, grep, awk,
perl or any other filter to decide what fP report is to be run, and with
what input data?

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JP