On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Troy Engel wrote:
> > job-1234: :fail: ${readfile{/some/file}{}}
>
> Hmmmm, this doesn't quite work like I expected. What I want to happen is that
> the person is emailed back the contents of the file (like a vacation reply),
> but instead what I get is this text during the SMTP conversation (in
> Thunderbird, a really huge dialog box :) ).
Ah, sorry, I wasn't thinking straight. That isn't going to work.
> I'm looking at my userforward router (with FAQ_4.html#TOC156 applied) and
> vacation router, but don't see the proper way to do what I want. Maybe I don't
> want to use :fail: in my aliases file?
An Exim filter would be an easier way to do this. It has a proper "mail"
command that can take data from a file. However, in order to do that you
need to accept the email rather than verifying at SMTP time.
Actually, trying to send back a long message at SMTP time isn't always
useful because some clients won't show it to the user, and it can be
clumsy, as you've found.
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service
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