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How to use the autoresponder: |
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WARNING to non-Debian users: |
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Twisted 1.3 contains two severe bugs that may cause lost mail and |
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actually prevent using the autoresponder. These have been fixed in |
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upstream Twisted, in commits r12036, r12767 and r12858. Debian has |
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these bugs fixed in twisted-1.3.0-6 and later. |
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In the LDAP entry for an account, add one or more instances of the |
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attributetype scaleMailAway. The values should look like: |
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away = start SP stop [(LF / CRLF) message] |
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start = isotime |
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stop = isotime |
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isotime = year "-" month "-" day |
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[ "T" hour [ ":" minute [ ":" second ] ] ] |
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Where year, month, day, hour, minute and second should be obvious, and |
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message is as defined in RFC 2822. |
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(That is, two ISO 8601 timestamps separated by space on the first |
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line, the rest is an optional mail message.) |
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During the time between start and stop, the email message given is |
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sent as an autoresponse to anyone sending email to the account. A |
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single person gets atmost a limited number of autoresponses per time |
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interval. |
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If the message given is a MIME multipart message, the original message |
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is attached to it. |
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Special header fields starting with "X-Scalemail-" can configure |
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the following things: |
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X-Scalemail-Subject |
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will be used as subject prefix in the autoresponse |
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PS. A lot of thanks to Bruce Guenter for his qmail-autoresponder |
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software (http://untroubled.org/qmail-autoresponder/), it |
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provided a lot of inspiration for scalemail.gone. |
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PPS. scalemail.gone is meant to be a pluggable engine, with no |
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dependency on LDAP or Scalemail itself. Using it in other |
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projects should be quite easy. |
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