AARGH
   Another AutoResponder Gone Haywire
   Version 1.0

    This is another program to set up an auto response system using
procmail.  The general idea is this: You know someone is going to send
you a message, and you want to send them back a response as soon as
their message arrives.  Alternately, you want to send the equivelent
of a return receipt to a particular person.  
    aargh will set up procmail to watch for incoming mail from a
particular person, and as soon as any arrives, send them off the
response you tell it to.

HOW TO SET IT UP
  Aargh wants to have its own configuration file (user specific)
as well as a directory to keep responses.  If neither /etc/aargh.conf
nor ./aargh.conf are present, it will look at /etc/passwd for the
users home directory.  If you do not want to put aarghs configuration
files in the users home directory by default, you will need to create
a conf file and put it in /etc/aargh.conf. A sample file is below.  Do
not replace $USER with a sample user directory, I look for that
string.

USER_HOME_DIR                 /usr/home/$USER/
USER_AUTORESPONCE_CONF_FILE   /usr/home/$USER/yayAargh/.aargh.conf
USER_AUTORESPOND_DIR          /usr/home/$USER/yayAargh/.aargh.dir
SENDMAIL_PATH                 /opt/sbin/sendmail

Other than that, just put it in a bin directory, and have at it!

HOW TO USE IT
    Run aargh, and it will ask you a few questions, then modify
.procmailrc and its own file in its directory, and you will be set.
It is required that you have procmail enabled and running.  I will not
go into how to install procmail.  The two ways of doing so are to have
it as your default delivery agent, or to invoke it through your
delivery agent.  The second is more common, and it is done by creating
a .forward file in your home directory, and put
"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #username" in it
(include the quotes!).


FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS
* Impliment macros in the response, such as respondant name, time, etc.
This will allow for much more flexible responses.
* Allow for attachments to the e-mail you are sending.

FILES
/usr/local/bin/aargh
/etc/aargh.conf
~/.aargh.conf     (configurable location)
~/.aargh          (configurable location)


MISC
Design by moons@clan-io.net, code by Ben Hartshorne,
ben-aargh@adphi.loyalty.org.
Please send all bugs, comments, suggestions to Ben.

Copyright 1999, Ben Hartshorne

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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