                              GNARWL
                              
                    Gnu Neat Auto Reply With LDAP
                    
                    
... And also the sound I issued many times implementing this whole fuck ;-).


What is GNARWL
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Gnarwl is a email autoreply/vacation agent, intented to be used on mailservers,
where users may not (nescessarily) have systemaccoounts, but userinformation 
is stored within an LDAP database.

What are the features of gnarwl ?
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- User information is stored in LDAP, no shellaccounts required.
- Configurable via single systemwide configuration file.
- Per user locking of sent email (to prevent mail loops).
- No more messing around with individual .forward files, all userdata is kept 
  in LDAP.
- Configureable header matching (to avoid sending mail to mailing lists).
- Blacklisting of addresses, that may not use the autoresponder.
- Forceable header/footer on outgoing mail.
- Status reports via syslog.
- Not bound to a particular MTA (though postfix is recommended).


What are the drawbacks of gnarwl ?
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- It's my first C program, expect bugs ;-)
- Requires LDAP (consider yourself, if this is a drawback or benefit ;-) ).
- More complicated to setup up than .forward based vacations (but way 
  easier to maintain).
