MAILBOT(1) Double Precision, Inc. MAILBOT(1)
NAME
mailbot - A MIME-aware autoresponder utility
SYNOPSIS
mailbot [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 ’’"
}
DESCRIPTION
mailbot reads an E-mail message on standard input and creates an E-mail
message replying to the original message’s sender. A program is
specified 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
messages. If mailbot chooses not to send an autoresponse, it quietly
terminates without running program. The autoresponse is optionally
formatted 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 the
"Precedence: list" header, or the "List-ID:" header, or if its MIME
content type is "multipart/report" (this is the MIME content type for
delivery status notifications). The -M option formats the the
autoresponse itself as a MIME delivery status notification.
OPTIONS
-faddress
Address the autoresponse to address, which must be an RFC 2822[1]
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 without 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 mailbot
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 contents of
filename are inserted in the autoresponse without further
processing.
-M address
Format the autoresponse as a delivery status notification (RFC
1894[2]). address is an RFC 2822[1] 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[1] 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 ALSO
maildrop(1)[3], reformail(1)[4], reformime(1)[5].
REFERENCES
1. RFC 2822
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt
2. RFC 1894
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1894.txt
3. maildrop(1)
maildrop.html
4. reformail(1)
reformail.html
5. reformime(1)
reformime.html
Double Precision, Inc. 04/22/2007 MAILBOT(1)
