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[Fairlight]

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 08:47:59AM -0400, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
Walter Vaughan cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
> 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

MMDF?  Ugh.  Fairlight doesn't do MMDF.  In fact, he avoids it like the
black death.  Does it handle .forward files correctly?  If so, the rest is
quite trivial.

> 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.

Lightmail, actually.  But thanks for the plug!  

> 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.

Never used qmail personally, but I hear it's okay.

The key thing is that he's going to need to parse the message to find out
what report to generate.  I assume all quotes are not equal, so...  Without
a standardized format, it's all for naught.  I'd suggest a web-based
solution instead, and OneGate -could- help with that.

mark->
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