autoresponder: Mail Autoresponders
The autoresponder
utility is used to manage mail autoresponders through CLI. By using this utility, you can perform the following tasks:
- creating/deleting autoresponders
- enabling/disabling autoresponders
- editing autoresponder settings
- managing autoresponder attachment files
- managing automatic reply message parameters
Usage
autoresponder <command> <e-mail address> [
<option_1> [<param>]
[<option_2> [<param>]]
... [<option_N> [<param>]]
]
Example
The following command creates and enables autoresponder named AutoReply for Plesk mail account JDoe@example.com, sets the text to "Thank you for your inquiry. The application form is attached." and the subject line to "application form" for the automatic reply message, attached to the message file applicationform.txt
from the autoresponders attachment file repository.
plesk bin autoresponder --update -mail JDoe@example.com -status true -attach add:"applicationform.txt" -subject "application form" -text "Thank you for your inquiry. The application form is attached."
Commands
Command | Parameter | Description | Example |
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Updates autoresponder settings. Requires |
To reply to mail messages received by JohnDoe@example.com using autoresponder with the An autoreply message subject: plesk bin autoresponder --update -mail JDoe@example.com -subject "An autoreply message" or plesk bin autoresponder -u -mail JDoe@example.com -subject "An autoreply message" |
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Displays information about a mail autoresponder. Requires |
To view information about autoresponder for the mail account JDoe@example.com: plesk bin autoresponder --info -mail JDoe@example.com or plesk bin autoresponder -i -mail JDoe@example.com |
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Displays help on the use of the utility. |
To view help on the use of the plesk bin autoresponder --help or plesk bin autoresponder -h |
Options
Option | Parameter | Description | Example |
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Specifies a mail account for which an autoresponder is created. Required with |
To set up mail autoresponder for JDoe@example.com: plesk bin autoresponder -u -mail JDoe@example.com -status true |
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Specifies an email address to which incoming mail will be forwarded. |
To forward all incoming mail for autoresponder associated with JohnDoe@example.com to help@example.com: plesk bin autoresponder -u -mail JDoe@example.com -redirect help@example.com |
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Enables/Disables an autoresponder. Is |
To enable autoresponder for JDoe@example.com: plesk bin autoresponder -u -mail JDoe@example.com -status true |
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Specifies the subject line of the automatic reply message for an autoresponder. Is |
To reply to mail messages received by JDoe@example.com using autoresponder with the Help information subject: plesk bin autoresponder -u -mail JDoe@example.com -subject "Help information" |
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Specifies an autoresponder's automatic reply message body text. |
To set the automatic reply message body text for the autoresponder for JDoe@example.com to "Thank you for your inquiry.": plesk bin autoresponder -u -mail JDoe@example.com -text "Thank you for your inquiry." |
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Specifies the format of an autoresponder's automatic reply message. |
To send automatic reply messages in the HTML format by using autoresponder for JDoe@example.com: plesk bin autoresponder -u -mail JDoe@example.com -format html |
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Specifies the charset used to encode autoresponder's automatic reply messages. |
To use the UTF-8 charset to encode automatic reply messages of the autoresponder for JDoe@example.com: plesk bin autoresponder -u -mail JDoe@example.com -charset UTF-8 |
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Specifies the autoresponder end date. |
To set the end date of the autoresponder for the JDoe@example.com mail account to December 31st, 2015: plesk bin autoresponder -u -mail JDoe@example.com -end-date 2015-12-31 |
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Adds/Removes attached files to/from autoresponder's automatic reply message. Only files that are already added (with the help of the Used with the |
To add files plesk bin autoresponder -u -mail JDoe@example.com -attach add:sampleschedule.txt,applicationform.txt |
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Specifies the maximum number of automatic responses to a unique email address per day. |
To send no more than 5 emails in a day in response to all emails sent to JDoe@example.com from any unique email address: plesk bin autoresponder -u -mail JDoe@example.com -frq 5 |