autoresponder: whack attachments in replies?

[jenili]

I'm stumped; I really have RTFQM (Read The FutureQuest Manual), and I can't find this anywhere -- nor a manpage on autoresponder. Anybody know, or know where I can find some dox on it?

Here's the story. I have a .qmail file for a particular alias. It forwards to a couple of different email accounts and sends a confirmation message using autoresponder ("thanks, I received your submission"). The problem is, this alias is specifically for people sending potentially very large files as attachments (ergo the forward, I don't want to block up my FQ space with them). And autoresponder sends the attachments back, in ASCII with multipart headers. Eeeee-YUK! :-p

Surely there must be a way to get autorespond to drop the original message when replying? Or do I have to write my own reply-er?

TIA,
jeni

[Terra]

What I do for more involved processing is write a perl script to handle the message via .qmail-command...

Please refer to:
http://www.futurequest.net/docs/QMAIL/man8/qmail-command.8.html

The actual autoresponder program is written in C and is difficult to make changes to without spending countless hours coding/changing/debugging...[nbsp][nbsp]It was written primarily to manage (bounces/autoresponses/abuse), and autorespond with the specified message...

For more exacting needs, the .qmail-command is the realm you will venture into...[nbsp][nbsp]It won't take long to get used to as long as you understand what all variables are passed in...[nbsp][nbsp]I just wrote an environment dumper to start with and sent in a test message, then writing the environment to a debugging file...[nbsp][nbsp]From there, it's not difficult to expand on...

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Terra
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