Public folders and auto responder (out of office replies)

[caribk]

Is it possible to setup an auto responder, or out-of-office reply, in CE for a public folder that has an e-mail address tied to it as follows?

omaddent -e S=+BB/OU1=server/OU2=domain/DDT1=BB/DDV1=Folder/INTERNET-ADDR=addr@domain.com

From what I've read Scalix doesn't use the standard concept of auto responders, or am I wrong?, but does utilize an out-of-office reply feature for users.

I am wondering this could be extended to public folders as well, or if there really is an auto-responder feature that could be used?

[mhanisch]

I don't know if this could be done for public folders directly (I doubt it), but
one solution for your problem would be to
- create a new user account with the address that used to belong
to your public folder
- create filter rules (auto actions), e.g. using sxaa or the Scalix Rule Wizard,
for that user to do the auto-reply and file the message to the public folder.
(This could also be used to filter out spam before it reaches the public folder etc.)

Fairly obvious, and works - but of course adding a dummy user for this sole purpose is somthing you might dislike.

[caribk]

thanks for the suggestion..
for others with the same problem, i ended up doing the following instead..

basically, the address in question was for an automated request system, which although it had a replyto: address in the e-mail, it would never be replied to by a human (slightly different than the inital question regarding using public folders and auto replies) and actually i ended up not even delivering messages to any public folder at all... [although it might be possible to combine this approach with a public folder e-mail address and have delivery in addition to the autoreply??? suggestions..?]

so.. my approach is not connected to scalix per se, but related to sendmail..
i used a perl script, placed in /etc/smrsh/ to accomplish the auto reply (NOTE: you might have to put the script in this directory for this to work unless you override security mechanisms in sm)

here is the code:

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#!/usr/bin/perl

sub trim($);

$default_domain = "domain.com";
$Sflag = 0;
$Fflag= 0;
$domain = "";

#open (FILE, ">>/etc/autoreply/autoreply.log");
while (<STDIN>) {
   if ((/^From /x) && ($Fflag == 0)) {
      ($from, $address, $date) = split (/ /, $_, 3);
      $address =~ tr/[A-Z]/[a-z]/;
      $Fflag = 1;
   } elsif ((/^To: /x) && ($Sflag == 0)) {
      @subj = split (/ /, $_,);
      $Sflag = 1;
   }
#   print FILE $_;
}
#close (FILE);

if ($address =~ /mailer-daemon/) {
   exit(0);
} elsif ($address =~ /postmaster/) {
   exit(0);
}

if($Sflag == 1) {
   foreach $sb (@subj) {
      if(($sb =~ m/\w*\.\w/)) {
        ($usr,$dom) = split( /@/,$sb);
        $dom =~ s/[\]\[{}>'"<!()]//gs;
        $domain = $dom;
      }
   }
}

if($domain eq "") {
   $domain = $default_domain; #Default
}
else {
   $domain = trim($domain);
}
$domain =~ tr/[A-Z]/[a-z]/;
$Domain = ucfirst($domain);

open SENDMAIL, "| /usr/sbin/sendmail -bm -oi -f no-reply\@$domain $address";
print SENDMAIL <<EOM;
From: "$Domain" <no-reply\@$domain>
To: $address
Subject: Auto Response to $Domain Inquiry

EOM
if($domain eq $default_domain) {
        open (FILE, "/etc/autoreply/autoreply.default");
} else {
        open (FILE, "/etc/autoreply/autoreply.alternate");
}
while (<FILE>) {
   print SENDMAIL;
}
close (FILE);

close SENDMAIL;

exit(0);

sub trim($)
{
        my $string = shift;
        $string =~ s/^\s+//;
        $string =~ s/\s+$//;
        return $string;
}