---
name: "autorespond"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "autorespond"
version: "2.0.5-1"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/autorespond"
---

# autorespond(1)

simple autoresponder for qmail

## NAME

autorespond - simple autoresponder for qmail

## SYNOPSIS

**autorespond** time num message dir \[ flag arsender \]\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **autorespond** command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**autorespond** sends an automatically generated response to emails for given address(es). It catches simple situations such as mail from a mailer-daemon, empty envelope sender, bulk precedence headers, etc.

time - time in seconds to consider consecutive

num - maximum number of messages to respond to within time seconds

message - the message file

dir - the directory to store list of e-mail addresses

flag - \[1\|0\] append quoted original message without attachments

arsender - from address in generated message (\* = None)

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Sam Johnston \<samj@aos.net.au\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

## NAME

autorespond - simple autoresponder for qmail

## SYNOPSIS

**autorespond** time num message dir\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **autorespond** command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**autorespond** sends an automatically generated response to emails for given address(es). It catches simple situations such as mail from a mailer-daemon, empty envelope sender, bulk precedence headers, etc.

time - amount of time to consider a message (in secs)

num - maximum number of messages to allow within time secs

message - the filename of the message to send

dir - the directory to hold the log of messages

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Sam Johnston \<samj@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).