How do I use autorespond / autoreply?
The Auto-Responder program is already installed and configured in your /usr/bin/ directory. To set up an Auto-Responder that sends an autoreply message, follow the steps below: Create an autoreply message (the message sent back to the customer) in your home directory: pico ~/.autoreply Add something like the following to your “etc/aliases” file: info: NAME@DOMAIN_NAME, “|/usr/bin/autoreply -f info-reply -a info” Your entry should appear on a single line within your Unix editor. Run the vnewaliases command to update your etc/aliases.db file. With the above example, when your customer sends you mail at “info@DOMAIN_NAME” it will send back whatever message is contained in the ~/.autoreply file (NOTE: You can use the “-m” option to specify a different message file (i.e. “autoreply -m /etc/mymessage”). The “-f” option allows you to change who the autoreply message will be from (in the example above, the “From:” field the customer gets will read “info-reply@DOMAIN_NAME”). The “-a” option spe
