Auto responders

[Dexie]

Trying to setup an autoresponder, so that even when I'm not available to answer emails, the sender still receives an email to say something like 'you're email will be answered as soon as possible.' The same should happen if they send a form enquiry.

The autoresponder should also contain their email or form with an extra bit from us.

Is there a way of doing this for free?

The hosts do have autoresponders, but they are not able to handle this.

I'm on Apache server and the hosts do enable php if it's any help.

Any help appreciated.

Dexie.

[jatar_k]

do you want this to happen when they submit a form? or are you just talking about when an email is sent to an account?

[Dexie]

Both ;-)

[jatar_k]

well, as we covered before, autoresponders for email accounts need to be set up in the mail server itself or in your particular email client

as far as sending a confirmation when they submit a form, you just add a call to the mail [php.net] function

[Dexie]

OE6 won't do it and the hosts can't do it, so am looking at php.

Thanks for the input.

[jatar_k]

options

you could switch mail clients
you could install something like [procmail.org...] though I am not sure how that will go in a shared hosting environment
hire someone to answer all emails

can't really think of anything else

the mail server receives those emails and puts them in the account, there is no point in that process where you can inject a php script

[Dexie]

Ok, many thanks for the input.

I'm sure I've seen this in action somewhere - will delve deeper into this.

[FiRe]

You could use imap to check for unread messages and then mail the recipient with the away message!
[php.net...]

[Dexie]

Many thanks for that link - it looks heavy going, but I'll go thru it.