Auto Respond is a plugin for SquirrelMail that lets you set up a forward file or vacation message via FTP. If you have some kind of mail filter available through your forward files, it will also let you turn that on or off.
See also: http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=172.
- an FTP server that can authenticate your users using the same credentials as your IMAP server
- ftp support in PHP (see http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.ftp.php)
- a forward file somewhere under the user's FTP directory
- version 2.x of the compatibility plugin
- creates a new block under Options
- toggle keeping a message in the local mailbox, either through a piped filter or unfiltered
- toggle forwarding all email, remembering the last address used to forward
- toggle use of a vacation program and editing of the response message
- support for alternate email addresses (aliases) in the vacation app
- fairly simple (?) customization of the messages a user sees in the various option pages
- capable of using locale translations, but available translations are very limited. Please send your translations to me and I'll include them in the next release! I have a Japanese translation, but I'm mystefied as to why it doesn't work. If any Japanese users can offer suggestions, I'd love to hear from you.
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Install this directory into your squirrelmail source dir at plugins/autorespond.
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Ensure that you have an FTP server which allows your users to log in using the same username and password they use to login to Squirrelmail.
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Copy config.php.ex to config.php and modify the file as described within. You may also want to leave this file intact and simply put your own variable settings into config_local.php instead, which will override anything defined in config.php.
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Enable the plugin through conf.pl.
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Test it out! Make sure to double-check the contents of your forward file and vacation files after making changes through SquirrelMail.
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It has been brought to my attention that some vacation programs need to be initialized before they can be used. This isn't exactly something that lends itself well to our web environment, but it's something you may need to be aware of. Check your own vacation docs and test a bit to learn whether you need to handle this. I don't have a good solution for this that can operate through our limited FTP-only environment, and I strongly prefer to avoid making the web server run scripts on the user's behalf. If you need this, perhaps you could run a nightly or hourly cron job to initialize vacation dbs for users. Feel free to contact me if you're in this situation and need a hand.
If you've used autorespond in the past, you can now override config.php's settings in config_local.php. Any variables defined in config.php can be put there. Since it's loaded after config.php, your settings will override the defaults.
Release 0.5 added internationalization and included major updates to the strings in config.php. I strongly recommend that you don't just keep your old pre-0.5 config, but rather back it up, copy config.php.ex to config.php, then add your customizations to config_local.php.
I've tested this plugin quite a bit and it has worked well on my systems since 2002. It has also worked well for many other people. I have tried to make it resistant to unexpected problems and easy to change for different environments, but I'm sure there are shortcomings. If you have any questions, comments, or feature requests, please contact me through shaug-sqml @ wumpus.org.
See the TODO file.
This code is licensed under the Perl Artistic License, version 2.0. For more information, please see the file Artistic_2.0, which was included with this distribution, or http://opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license-2.0.php