RCVTRIP(1)

NAME
rcvtrip - answerphone for mail

SYNOPSIS
rcvtrip [-dF] [-e exit] [-f from] [-l file] [-n file] [-s sigfile] [-t text] [-u user]

DESCRIPTION
Rcvtrip is a process that is normally run from the user .mailfilter file. It answers incoming mail with a user defined message usually informing the sender that the recipient is on vacation or similar.

It normally checks to see if the message specifies the user in the To: or Cc: lines and will not reply otherwise. It also checks and updates a database file to see if this user has been replied to already. It will normally only reply to a given user once.

It has several options to modify it's behaviour.

-d  run in debug mode.

-F  Always reply to the message, even if the message is not sent directly to the user. -e value set the exit code depending on this value. If the value is 0, the exit code is always bad. If the value is 1, the exit code is always good. An value of 2 will give an exit value of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 99 if the message was sent; not sent because duplicate; not sent because not sent to user; parse error; other; respectively.

-f from
    Set the free form text of the from address to this value (default is MESSAGE AGENT).

-l file
    Set the database file to this file name.

-n file
    Use this file as the text of the message to send back after standard preamble.

-s file
    Use this file to determine the users signature, which is appended to the preamble.

-t text
    Modify the preamble with this line. There may be several of these arguments in which case they are concatenated.

-u user
    Pretend to be this user when answering.

FILES
.signature	default signature file
tripnote	default trip note file
triplog		database of incoming messages
.mailfilter	the mailfilter processing file

SEE ALSO
PP Manual - Volume 3: User Manual

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