Enough (Automatic email reply generator WishList)

[Bharat Mediratta]

In article <SQUASH.91Mar10211016 at heat.math.ufl.edu> squash at math.ufl.edu (Jonathan King) writes:
>  Is any talented individual interested in writing a Unix "vacation
>mailer" program which 
>  1) Keeps track of the addresses it responds to, and never responds
>     to the same address twice.
>  2) Takes as an argument a list of address -or better, a regular
>     expression, of Addresses\Subjects NOT to respond to... such as:
>	"mailing list" addresses,
>	 MAILER-DAEMON "Returned mail: User unknown" messages, 
>	automatic "I'm not home" messages
>  3) Put a marker in the Subject: line, or create a special header
>     indicating that this mail-reply is automatically generated.
>
>A fancier version of the program might have
>  4) An Address/Subject regular-expression/(file or command) table.
>Depending on the Address or Subject matter of the incoming mail, the
>VacationProgram automatically files the message in a particular mail
>file.  Or runs a particular command on the message.  (In this instance,
>I am thinking of the VacationProgram as being written in Emacs Lisp
>and working inside of an Emacs which was left running -probably not
>practical unless you have your own workstation.)
>

I have a particular need for a program like this (due to my impending
leave over Easter Break.)  I am willing to write a program to handle
the above four requests (although I would write it as a csh script 
for my .forward, not in Emacs Lisp) but I would like to see if anybody
else has a package that can handle this.
Currently, I have a mail sorter that would handle request #4 quite
neatly, and adding numbers 1-3 would be a piece of cake.

>PS> I've put Followup:comp.emacs  as I'm thinking the above program
>might be most easily written in Emacs Lisp.  If you feel my choice
>inappropriate, I suggest  Followup:comp.unix.wizards

I think this should stay in comp.unix.wizards.

Cheers!
 Bharat
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