Automatic mail reply using Perl?

[StickyBit]

Folks,

When a recipient receives mail on my mail server, how can I send an automatic email reply back to the sender? Can this be done using Perl?

I was working for a company and had access to their Sendmail mail server. In the /usr/bin/alias file, I think I saw an alias name then a pipe to a perl script, when I asked what is this? someone told me that the perl script was an automatic email reply program for the recipient.

Is this a valid way to trigger automatic email replies? Please shine some light on this topic, if I can get a high level explanation on this process, I can create the code.


Thanks,

StickyBit.





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[Butterfly123]

U can write a perl script to check mails on a periodic basis and reply the new mails using that script.

U can schedule this script using cron..

Regds,

- Hemant
Networking and Systems Integration Group
Satyam Computer Services Ltd