Sending Attachments as Automatic/Canned reply

[Ralph Sanford]

On Sun, 05 Dec 1999 20:33:51 -0500 (EST), Steve Marvin wrote:

>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.
>
>

Thanks for the info.  Works like a charm.


Ralph Sanford        -        If your government does not trust you,
rsanford@telusplanet.net    -    should you trust your government?

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