---
name: "News::AutoReply"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libnews-article-perl"
version: "1.27-12"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/News::AutoReply"
---

# News::AutoReply(3pm)

derivative of News::Article for generating autoreplies

## NAME

News::AutoReply - derivative of News::Article for generating autoreplies

## SYNOPSIS

```
  use News::AutoReply;
  $reply = News::AutoReply->new($message);
```

## DESCRIPTION

Like News::Article, but must be given a reference to another article at creation time - initialises To, In-Reply-To, References etc. correctly as an automatic reply.

## USAGE

```
  use News::AutoReply;
```

Exports nothing.

## Constructor

- new ( ORIGINAL )

  Construct an autoreply to a message, assuming that the Reply-To (if present, otherwise the From) header of `"ORIGINAL"` is valid.

  Returns a new Article object with no body or envelope sender, but with suitable headers.

  If an environment variable LOOP is defined, it is used as the contents of an X-Loop header added to the reply (this is useful when using this code in progs launched from a procmail recipe). Always preserves X-Loop headers in the original.

  The reference-folding code could probably be improved.

## AUTHOR

Andrew Gierth \<andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk\>

## SOURCE

Contact the author.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1997 Andrew Gierth \<andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk\>

This code may be used and/or distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.