From: overlord@megalith.miami.fl.us (Carlos Amezaga)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: Mail answering program wanted
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Date: 19 Aug 92 01:03:33 EST
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Quoted from <...unknown> by ralle@oberon.dinoco.de (Ralph Niere):
> Hello net.folks,
> 
> I'm looking for a program that answers my mail while I'm on vacation.
> It should send a reply to each incoming mail including a short message
> telling the sender of the original mail when I'll be back and so on.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Ralph

	Although I didn't write the program, I use UUEcho which is
included with the 1.16 distribution disk.  The version I have was
modified by me and uses an External Script file as well as the ALIASES
file in UULIB.  It worked quite well, except for one minor annoyance that
cropped up.  That person almost ended up Killing me, however now I know
better. :-)  SORRY DAVE!  If you would like to see how it works send
E-Mail to pub@megalith.miami.fl.us and you will get a directory listing
of my UUPUB directory at the time the mail is processed.  Since I
modified UUecho to use a script file, it is pretty simple to set up.  Of
course the UUecho I have will only work with one script file.  It won't
work with multiple script files.  That means that UUecho must be a unique
command name within my C directory.  For example, I have 3 UUecho
programs in my C directory.  They are UUecho, Echo01, and Echo02.  Echo01
always loads up a script called Script1 and Echo02 loads a script called
Script2. (Sorry, I am very original as you can tell.)  :-)  The Script file
looks something like this.

 - ------
join T:UUECHO UUMAIL:VACATION as T:Mail
sendmail < T:Mail -R Megalith  
Delete t:Mail                           
Delete t:UUECHO

 - ------

	As you can see, I join text file called UUECHO.  This is the
Original message the creater of the message sent me, except that the To:
and From: headers have been reversed.  I join that to a file called
VACATION which looks like this.

 - ------------------

	The Above message was Received by Megalith, however, I am not in at
the moment.  I am on vacation for the next 2 Weeks (Starting July 19) and
Megalith will be on Auto Pilot until then.  All mail will be kept until my
arrival at which time I will answer your Mail.  So I am not ignoring you!

                        l\/\/\/l     Hey,
                        l      l     Don't have a cow, man!
                        l      l    /
                        l (o)(o)   /
                        C      _) /
                         l ,___l
                         l   /
                        /____\
                       /      \

:-) 

Thanks and Take care...

Carlos

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	My UUCP config file has my account name as overlord.  So I set up
the following Aliases in the ALIASES file in UULIB.

overlord: lecho03, >uumail:overlord
          ^
          |_____ This is the pipe Redirection symbol not a lower case L.


	Of course all you need now is the Modified UUecho. :-)

Take care.....

Carlos

	Yes, this is the end of the message!

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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:21:32 MDT
From: wuth@castrov.cuc.ab.ca (Brett Wuth)
Subject: uucico doc bug
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp