Send Mail with auto reply

[LMSSML]

Hi people,

I'm newbie with sendmail and I'm having a problem, probably it's easy to do it but I've got a user that I want to configure a message "Out of Office".
I've tried to search on the internet I found a site something like this

Linux security: mail, sendmail, fetchmail, procmail...

Sending automatic reply-mails

You can do this by checking e-mails automatically. I decided:

1. to get my e-mails
2. to let them check additionally

Create a file .forward in your homedirectory like this for a user wwwrun which shall get mails from persons with a special headline:

\wwwrun,"| /home/wwwrun/forward.pl"

This means that the mail gets delivered to the user himself AND to the programm mentioned. The program forward.pl is not too sophisticated:

#!/usr/bin/perl
# file ~/forward.pl
# called by ~/.forward which looks like this for user wwwrun:
# wwwrun,"| /home/wwwrun/forward.pl"
#
# mission: generate automatic mails as answers
#
BEGIN {
use lib "/usr/local/bin/hor.module";
}
use mailhor;
# This is valid for all mails generated here:
my $smtpserver = "gatekeeper.rosi13.de";
my $from = 'wwwrun@gatekeeper.rosi13.de';
# my $cc = 'horshack@gatekeeper.rosi13.de';
my $cc = '';

# Parse this mail:
my ($org_subject,$org_from,$org_replyto) = (undef,undef,undef);
my @mail = <STDIN>;
foreach (@mail) {
$org_subject = $1 if (/^Subject: (.*)$/i);
$org_from = $1 if (/^From: (.*)$/i);
$org_replyto = $1 if (/^Reply-To: (.*)$/i);
}
# Analyze
if ($org_subject =~ /please give me password for msdos-bootdisk/) {
&send_disk_password(to=>$org_from,cc=>$cc);
system "logger \'sending dos-password-mail to $org_from\'";
}
exit;

sub send_disk_password {
my (%args) = @_;
my $to = $args{to};
my $cc = $args{cc};
my $subject = "Re: please give me password for msdos-bootdisk";
my $body =<<'EODISKPASSWORD';
Hi,
thanks for your interest... blablabla.
From Nuernberg, Bavaria
yours
Richard Lippmann
EODISKPASSWORD
&mailhor::sendamail(smtpserver=>$smtpserver,from=> $from,
to=>$to,cc=>$cc,subject=>$subject,body=>$body);
}

I don't know if it's better or the worst but indicates me that could be done with a little script, although the script won't work because when we sent an e-mail for the specific user the mail must return a message with out of office and that dosen't happend.

Help !!!!

Best Regards

[LMSSML]

Hi people !!!

Could anyone help with this subject !!!

Thnaks

Best Regards