ANSWER: prgm for autoanswering Unix mail(1) while away
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dat at hpcnof.UUCP
Mon Jan 13 07:17:00 AEST 1986
> The program answer will auto answer your unix mail while you are away.
> The best place to run this program from is via crontab(1) of course.
I find it hard to believe that I'm the only person who's ever written
an autoanswer program that has the following features:
1. It only has one copy running, regardless of how many people
are using it on a given machine.
2. It doesn't do anything silly with the incoming mail, like
putting it into another file...it doesn't touch the mail at
all, in fact.
3. It's FAST AND it recognizes mail sent from itself, so there
are no 'loops'...
4. You can bring it down and reboot and it'll work again without
loosing track of where it was with anyone...
Hmmm...
(Have I inspired anyone out there???)
-- Dave Taylor
Hewlett Packard Corp.
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