1MAILBOT(1)                  Double Precision, Inc.                  MAILBOT(1)
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NAME

6       mailbot - A MIME-aware autoresponder utility
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SYNOPSIS

9       mailbot [options] {program} [arg...]
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11       In .mailfilter:
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13           if (/^Subject: *info/)
14           {
15                cc "| mailbot -t /usr/share/autoresponse/info -d autoresponsedb \
16                       -A 'From: info@domain.com' /usr/bin/sendmail -f ''"
17           }
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DESCRIPTION

20       mailbot reads an E-mail message on standard input and creates an E-mail
21       message replying to the original message's sender. A program is
22       specified as an argument to mailbot after all of mailbot options.
23       program is expected to read the created autoreply on its standard
24       input, and mail it. If program is not specified, mailbot runs 'sendmail
25       -f ""'.
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27       mailbot has several options for suppressing duplicate autoresponse
28       messages. If mailbot chooses not to send an autoresponse, it quietly
29       terminates without running program. The autoresponse is optionally
30       formatted as a MIME delivery status notification.
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32       The text of the autoresponse is specified by the -t or the -m argument.
33       Either one is required. Everything else is optional. The default
34       behavior is to send an autoresponse unless the original message has the
35       "Precedence: junk" or the "Precedence: bulk" header, or the
36       "Precedence: list" header, or the "List-ID:" header, or if its MIME
37       content type is "multipart/report" (this is the MIME content type for
38       delivery status notifications). The -M option formats the the
39       autoresponse itself as a MIME delivery status notification.
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OPTIONS

42       -faddress
43           Address the autoresponse to address, which must be an RFC 2822[1]
44           address. By default mailbot takes the autoresponse address from the
45           From: (or the Reply-To:) header in the original message.  -f, if
46           present, overrides and explicitly sets the autoresponse address.
47           "address" must immediately follow the -f option without an
48           intervening space (it's a single command line argument). An -f
49           option without an address takes the address from the SENDER
50           environment variable.
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52       -t filename
53           Read text autoresponse from filename, which should contain a plain
54           text message.
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56       -c charset
57           Set the autoresponse's MIME character set to charset. Run mailbot
58           without any arguments to see the default character set.
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60       -m filename
61           Read a MIME autoresponse from filename. This is similar to the -t
62           option, except that filename contains MIME headers, followed by a
63           blank line, and the corresponding MIME content. The contents of
64           filename are inserted in the autoresponse without further
65           processing.
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67       -M address
68           Format the autoresponse as a delivery status notification (RFC
69           1894[2]).  address is an RFC 2822[1] E-mail address that generates
70           the DSN. Note that the -A option should be used in ddition to -M in
71           order to set the From: header on the autoresponse.
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73       -r addrlist
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75           addrlist is a comma-separated list of RFC 2822[1] E-mail addresses.
76           mailbot sends an autoresponse only if the original message has at
77           least one of the specified addresses in any To: or Cc: header.
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79       -d filename
80           Create a small database, filename, that keeps track of sender's
81           E-mail addresses, and prevent duplicate autoresponses going to the
82           same address (suppress autoresponses going back to the same
83           senders, for subsequent received messages). The -d option is only
84           available if maildrop has GDBM/DB extensions enabled.
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86       -D x
87           Do not send duplicate autoresponses (see the -d option) for at
88           least x days (default: 1 day). The -d option creates a database of
89           E-mail addresses and the times an autoresponse was last mailed to
90           them. Another autoresponse to the same address will not be mailed
91           until at least the amount of time specified by the -D option has
92           elapsed.
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94       -s "subject"
95           Set the Subject: header on the autoresponse to subject.
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97       -A "header: value"
98           Add an arbitrary header to the autoresponse. Multiple -A options
99           are allowed.
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SEE ALSO

102       maildrop(1)[3], reformail(1)[4], reformime(1)[5].
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REFERENCES

105        1. RFC 2822
106           http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt
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108        2. RFC 1894
109           http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1894.txt
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111        3. maildrop(1)
112           maildrop.html
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114        4. reformail(1)
115           reformail.html
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117        5. reformime(1)
118           reformime.html
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122Double Precision, Inc.            04/22/2007                        MAILBOT(1)