email server

[Walter Vaughan]

Enrique Arredondo wrote:

> 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

The one time I was looking at something similar to that I had decided that 
"majordomo" had an excellent framework to work within. I think you'll have to 
use sendmail however.
http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/

Unless you are doing this purely as a hobby endeavor, I'd strongly suggest 
working with Mark (fairlite on this list). I can see tons of security issues 
that he'll be able to work through quickly. I'm just guessing, but his OneGate 
product line should be able to solve a majority of the things needed.

A third mechanism would be to use Qmail and qmail-autorespond which is fully 
integrated with MySQL to return  data in a email from a database.

Good luck. You're gonna need it.

--
Walter