Comments on How To Set Up A Postfix Autoresponder With Autoresponse

will this work with the "Perfect Ubuntu Server 8.10"

--Steve

Does NOT work with non virtual user mail accounts.

Jun 18 15:14:19 x postfix/smtpd[15108]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from x: 550 5.1.1 <[email protected]>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table; from=<[email protected]> to=<[email protected]> proto=ESMTP helo=<220mmjpchang>

Here is error from our log...

Thanks

I am using local user and virtual users. autoresponse seems to work - I got an email response. But, the response email is empty. No subject, no content. I have created enable a response file for user actually. What is wrong?

I'm having the same problem. The autoresponses are blank. Did you ever figure this out?

I set this up, and it works great.  However, I need to integrate Amavis and SpamAssassin according to these instructions, flurdy.com/docs/postfix/, but I can't get them all to work together.  How can I accomplish this?  Thanks

you could try iRedMail (google it)

it installs postfix, dovecot, anti virus, anti spam, etc etc the lot.

all well documented, worked great for me...

I can confirm. It's not working with AMAVIS-NEW. It seems that autoresponder don't queue message to next content filter. Maybe is neccasary change something in master.cf ..after pipe to external auoresponse script it should be returned back.

works like a charm... good job...

BR

Hi, one little issue.

The autoreposnder replies to the FROM address of the orignal sender. This is an issue when there is some aliasing going on (ie he REPLY TO address differs to the FROM address).

Do you know how I could force the autoresponder to always use the REPLY-TO address?

Thanks in advance

I installed iRedMail (centos+postfix-dovecot) server then added autoreponse as per your instructions, and within 20 minutes from starting the whole process, I had a fully functional Enterprise ready email sever with autoreponse configured at the sametime as mailbox creation.

awesome job thanks!

Don't know if it's still important but I searched for an autoreply extensions and found this script very nice. Unfortunately I received the same error "550 unknown recipient..." and went through all parameters in main.cf and finally I found the solution: address extensions must be enabled for this feature to work!

Just uncomment the entry "recipient_delimiter = +" in the file main.cf (in my main.cf I found it on line 426) and restart postfix and then the email-interface for autoresponse is working fine.

Hope this helps all those who are still searching for a solution...

Use vi to change line #156 of the script (/usr/local/sbin/autoresponse) to the following line, if you want to replace all occurrences of SENDEREMAIL in the autoresponse text with the sender's e-mail address (variable SENDER):

(cat "${RESPONSES_DIR}/${RECIPIENT}") | sed -e "0,/^$/ { s/^To:.*/To: <${SENDER}>/ }" -e '0,/^$/ { /^Date:/ d }' | ${SENDMAIL} -i -f "${RECIPIENT}" "${SENDER}"

... becomes:

(cat "${RESPONSES_DIR}/${RECIPIENT}") | sed -e "0,/^$/ { s/^To:.*/To: <${SENDER}>/ }" -e "{ s/SENDEREMAIL/${SENDER}/ }" -e '0,/^$/ { /^Date:/ d }' | ${SENDMAIL} -i -f "${RECIPIENT}" "${SENDER}"
( I deliberately used the keyword SENDEREMAIL and not SENDER in case the keyword SENDER comes up inside the text in a different context.)

This change becomes in handy if you want the autoresponse text to contain unsubscribe links etc.. So your autoresponse text could look something like this:

Thank you... blah blah... unsubscribe here: http://www.mydomain.com/unsub.php?id=SENDEREMAIL

And it will be becomes this when it gets sent out:
Thank you... blah blah... unsubscribe here: http://www.mydomain.com/[email protected]


I couldn't figure out how to contact Charles from nefaria.com to ask him if he wants to include this in the next version. If you find him, please ping him :-)

Great work, thanks. I spend lot of time to find this.

I have been used iRedmail on my system, and then try to Install this script....

and it's Works like magic, Thanks brother for your Great Tutorial.

everything works perfectly, with all instructions from Falco

Works as described. Many Thanks !

Help Help ! www.nefaria.com/scriptz/autoresponse-1.6.3.tar.gz returns 404.. and i  found no archived copy, only project officially ending notification saved on web.archive.org  :(  can somebody share it or 1.6.2 let's say? or provide an alive link...  

tia!

One small point: 

you must add each user account to the autoresponse group, e.g. as follows for the system user falko:

usermod -G autoresponse falko 

Using usermod -G without -a will replace the groups. Please also use -a if you want to append groups.

Hi,

I was wondering why am i getting this issue wont auto reply?

Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.mydomain.com.coX-Postfix-Queue-ID: 500ACD40C88X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; [email protected]: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 23:48:54 -0500 (COT)Final-Recipient: rfc822; [email protected]: failedStatus: 5.1.1Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; unknown user: "srs0"

Thank you

Althougt I use a smtp server with authentication it doesn't work for me. In the log I see the following message:

 Unauthenticated attempt to set autoresponse message for [email protected] from xx.xx.xx.xx!

What's going wrong?

Regards

Margit

I' ve found why it does not work: I have 2 mail servers: the first only authenticates and sends the mail to the second, the "real" smtp server.

Is there a solution for my problem?

Thanx and regards

Margit

Hey Luca

Did you ever get that fixed to where you can get it to toggle from e-mail?

You can edit the auto responders and their subjects in /var/spool/autoresponse/responses  .. Makes things a LOT easier knowing this!

Dear falko !

Thanks for your instruction this. 

I have done as your instrutions. 

The script work ok for shell, but the system can't work at step 4

When i email to [email protected], i can receive the email [email protected] with the same content for [email protected], no any content : 

Autoresponse enabled for [email protected] by SASL authenticated user: [email protected] from: 192.168.0.200

or 

Autoresponse disabled for [email protected] by SASL authenticated user: [email protected] from: 192.168.0.200

master.cf:

.....

dovecot   unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe

  flags=DROhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${user}@${nexthop}

autoresponder unix - n n - - pipe

     flags=Fq user=autoresponse argv=/usr/local/sbin/autoresponse -s ${sender} -r ${recipient} -S ${sasl_username} -C ${client_address}

Please help me.

Thanks

Hi,

we have two kind of mail addresses as there are more than one domain

the first is in /etc/aliases - there autoresponse works perfect

second is in /etc/postfix/virtual - does not return autoresponse at all

can you please advise on that

thanks in advance

It is very sad to see all this question which are exactly the same problem i have.

Sending an email does not work, i have AUTH, yes ... but still it gets rejected by 

Server error: '550 5.1.1 <[email protected]>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table'

Who found out what is missing? Do i need to add all addresses with +autoresponse somewhere ?

Still a valid howto in 2020. If you have your smtp in smtps only then you need to add the parameter

also to master.cf

smtps     inet  n       -       y       -       -       smtpd

-o ...

-o ...

-o content_filter=autoresponder:dummy

also the valid link to the newer version of autorespond is:

https://www.nefaria.com/scriptz/autoresponse-1.6.3.tar.gz

This howto works flawless with postfix 3.1 and dovecot 1.2.2 on Ubuntu 16.04

Will this work in combination with Postfixadmin?