MAILBOT(1)MAILBOT(1)NAMEmailbot - A MIME-aware autoresponder utility
SYNOPSISmailbot [ options ] program [ arg ... ]
In .mailfilter:
if (/^Subject: *info/)
{
cc "| mailbot-t /usr/share/autoresponse/info -d autoresponsedb \
-A 'From: info@domain.com' /usr/bin/sendmail -f ''"
}
DESCRIPTIONmailbot reads an E-mail message on standard input and creates an E-mail
message replying to the original message's sender. A program is speci‐
fied as an argument to mailbot after all of mailbot options. program
is expected to read the created autoreply on its standard input, and
mail it. If program is not specified, mailbot runs 'sendmail -f ""'.
mailbot has several options for suppressing duplicate autoresponse mes‐
sages. If mailbot chooses not to send an autoresponse, it quietly ter‐
minates without running program. The autoresponse is optionally for‐
matted as a MIME delivery status notification.
The text of the autoresponse is specified by the -t or the -m argument.
Either one is required. Everything else is optional. The default
behavior is to send an autoresponse unless the original message has the
"Precedence: junk" or the "Precedence: bulk" header, or if it's MIME
content type is "multipart/report" (this is the MIME content type for
delivery status notifications). The -M option formats the the autore‐
sponse itself as a MIME delivery status notification.
OPTIONS-faddress
Address the autoresponse to address, which must be an RFC 2822
address. By default mailbot takes the autoresponse address from
the From: (or the Reply-To:) header in the original message.
-f, if present, overrides and explicitly sets the autoresponse
address. "address" must immediately follow the -f option with‐
out an intervening space (it's a single command line argument).
An -f option without an address takes the address from the
SENDER environment variable.
-t filename
Read text autoresponse from filename, which should contain a
plain text message.
-c charset
Set the autoresponse's MIME character set to charset. Run mail‐
bot without any arguments to see the default character set.
-m filename
Read a MIME autoresponse from filename. This is similar to the
-t option, except that filename contains MIME headers, followed
by a blank line, and the corresponding MIME content. The con‐
tents of filename are inserted in the autoresponse without fur‐
ther processing.
-M address
Format the autoresponse as a delivery status notification (RFC
1894). address is an RFC 2822 E-mail address that generates the
DSN. Note that the -A option should be used in ddition to -M in
order to set the From: header on the autoresponse.
-r addrlist
addrlist is a comma-separated list of RFC 2822 E-mail addresses.
mailbot sends an autoresponse only if the original message has
at least one of the specified addresses in any To: or Cc:
header.
-d filename
Create a small database, filename, that keeps track of sender's
E-mail addresses, and prevent duplicate autoresponses going to
the same address (suppress autoresponses going back to the same
senders, for subsequent received messages). The -d option is
only available if maildrop has GDBM/DB extensions enabled.
-D x Do not send duplicate autoresponses (see the -d option) for at
least x days (default: 1 day). The -d option creates a database
of E-mail addresses and the times an autoresponse was last
mailed to them. Another autoresponse to the same address will
not be mailed until at least the amount of time specified by the
-D option has elapsed.
-s "subject"
Set the Subject: header on the autoresponse to subject.
-A "header: value"
Add an arbitrary header to the autoresponse. Multiple -A options
are allowed.
SEE ALSOmaildrop(1), reformail(1), reformime(1).
Double Precision, Inc. 19 February 2004 MAILBOT(1)
