email auto-responder

[Peter Hansen]

Sheila King wrote:
> 
> To invoke a script for a particular mailbox, say, joeuser at example.com, you
> would edit the file
> 
> .qmail-joeuser
> 
> and in that file you would put something like this:
> 
> /path/to/script/scriptname.py

Although the docs Sheila pointed to cover the actual details,
in case anyone tries to do it without RTFM the line usually
looks something like this example from TMDA:

|preline /usr/bin/tmda/bin/tmda-filter

The pipe | character tells Qmail to pass the email to the program,
and 'preline' is some preprocessing program included with Qmail
whose purpose I forget (but which takes the name of another program
to run, like the tmda-filter script above, which is really Python
code).

-Peter