Is there an autoresponder for SquirrelMail? And if so how do I installed it?

Computer Tips - Is there an autoresponder for SquirrelMail? And if so how do I installed it?

Date: 2008may30 OS: Linux Q. Is there an autoresponder for SquirrelMail? And if so how do I installed it? A. Squirrel Mail is an IMAP/POP client. Its only running when you are logged in so how can it automatically respond? Some clever guys made a plugin that uses FTP to modify the ~/.forward file that MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents) - like Postfix - use. Nice idea. Users don't care how it works. To install (on Fedora/RedHat/CentOS)... Make sure you have a "vacation" command:

which vacation

If its not there download and install from here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vacation

Download the autorespond plugin from here:

http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=172

Unpackage the plugin:

cd /usr/share/squirrelmail/plugins tar xvfz <file-you-just-downloaded>

Run the config program in a terminal window:

/usr/share/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl

Enable the plugin. Login as a regular user and make sure it works.