Sending Attachments as Automatic/Canned reply

[Steve Marvin]

On Sun, 05 Dec 1999 17:38:55 -0700 (MST), Ralph Sanford wrote:

>New question for the list.
>
>I have a small package of files (312k unzipped; 37k zipped) that I wish
>to automatically send to correspondents upon their request.  This happens
>often enough that I would like to make this automatic.  I had hoped I
>could do this as a PMMail canned reply, but it appears that Canned Reply
>is for a specific message not a formatted text file attachment.  The
>documents are Word97 if that matters, but it is important that formatting
>as Word97 be retained.
>
>From a nontechnical, nonprogrammer point of view what I want to do is
>receive a message that can be filtered, say with a Subject: 
>Access_To_Information .  Upon filtering a zipped file is attached and
>returned to the originator.  
>
>Can this be done with PMMail?
>
>

Create a filter that triggers as you want and sends a canned reply, in
the canned reply use the tag $a.filespec$ where filespec is the full
path to the zip file you want attached.