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NAME
      autoreply - Automatic mail reply system

SYNOPSIS
      autoreply
      autoreply off
      autoreply filename

DESCRIPTION
      Autoreply is a part of The Elm Mail System and is designed to enable
      users to easily set up an automatic response to all mail they receive.
      This is typically during a vacation or some other period of time that the
      user is not available to reply to mail (although some people get enough
      mail that they have it permanently running to simply send an "ack" to
      each message)

      The system is quite easy to use...  You can type "autoreply" and be
      informed of your current status in the system (on or off), or "autoreply
      off" will turn your autoreplying off.

      To add yourself to the system, you need merely to compose a form response
      in a file somewhere, then type "autoreply file" where file is the name of
      the file.

SPECIAL NOTE
      For this to function correctly, the program "arepdaemon" must be running
      as a daemon in background.  This program automatically checks all the
      currently enrolled users for new mail in their mailboxes...

AUTHOR
      Dave Taylor, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories.

SEE ALSO
      The Elm Users Guide , by Dave Taylor

      elm(1L), mail(1), mailx(1)

BUGS
      Unfortunately, this program isn't too brilliant about identifying mail
      that shouldn't be responded to (like mail from other daemons, or your
      mother) but that's a more general problem anyway.

      Also, occasionally a user will remove themselves from the autoreply
      system and the system won't turn their autoreply off.  This is a problem
      that hasn't been solved yet (obviously since it's in the "bugs"
      section!!) and any further information would be appreciated!

BUG REPORTS TO
      Syd Weinstein     elm@DSI.COM (dsinc!elm)





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