autoreplybot is designed for mail server administrators wishing to add an easy-to-use, easy-to-implement and uninvasive "autoreply" service for their users. All you need is a PHP environement and a little postgresql database.
The concept is fairly simple:
* You configure your mail server to send a copy of every mail that it processes to a specific mailbox
* You set up autoreplybot to poll this mailbox, either via POP3 or IMAP
* Users log on the autoreplybot web panel using their mailbox credentials (which autoreplybot validates against the mail server) and write their 'out of office' messages in a simple html form.
* When one of your users configure an "out of office" reply, autoreplybot sends this message back to every person that write an email to the user.
Features
- You don't have to fiddle with your mail server
- Once autoreplybot answers to someone, it won't re-send a new notification to this person for 1h (avoiding spamming your contacts)
- autoreplybot answers only to mails where the user's mail address appears in the to: or cc: fields, so it won't answer to mailing lists, newsletters, etc.