Re: Auto-response, but not vacation

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Auto-response, but not vacation
\ Sylvain (31 Mar 2008)
. \ mouss (31 Mar 2008)
. . \ Sylvain (1 Apr 2008)
. . . \ mouss (1 Apr 2008)

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Subject:	Re: Auto-response, but not vacation
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	mouss
Date:	31 Mar 2008

Sylvain wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for an auto-response system without using the vacation
> system. What I'd like is :
>
> when user receives an email, a response is sent to the
> sender to confirm that his email has been received. This action has to
> be enable for a single email address, and not the whole domain.

and if spammers hit this recipient, the innocent sender would die under
the flood? such functionalities require a lot of care to avoid
backscatter (exceptionally backscatter storms). vacation implements some
safeguards, but you still need other checks (not responding to mail that
may be spam, ... etc).
>
> Vacation could allow me to do something like that, but I have a
> strange issue when an alias is configured on the recipient email
> address... the vacation email is sent twice to the sender and mail is
> not delivered in the user mailbox ?
>

vacation should work. when using aliases, look at the "-a" flag.