Simple Autoresponders

An autoresponder is a simple way of setting up an email address which will return a message automatically

when someone sends email to it. Here are the instructions for setting this up.

In your root (home) directory, there is a directory called infobots. Set up a welcome message in this directory

   you can name it anything you like, but for our example we ll call it info. Don t call it info.txt    just name it

plain info with no file extension. The text for the welcome message could say:

"Thank you for requesting more information about our webpage design package. We have several design

packages to choose from. Here are our prices..."

Now, whenever someone sends email to: info@yourdomain.com they will automatically receive that text

email message to whatever email address they specified as their return to address. It s as simple as that. Don t

set up a redirect in your .redirect file for this.

You can have as many autoresponders as you want. Just save them all in the infobots directory and give them

each a unique name of anything with between 3 16 characters long.

Listservers / Mail Lists

PlusMail can also be used to create simple listservers. There is a limit of 5,000 subscribers per listserver. Here

are the instructions for setting up a listserver:

1) Set up a welcome message in the infobot directory    you can name it anything you like, but for our

example we ll call it welcome.

The text file could say:

"Welcome to our listserver. You are now subscribed and any email you wish to publish for all other

subscribers to see can be sent to listserver@yourdomain.com."

This message will be automatically returned to the sender each time someone subscribes.

2) Now you need to set up a configuration file to tell the mail system to build a mailing list. In your infobot

directory create a file called infolist. This is used to tell the system what to do with addresses received from

each infobot response. You can have as many lists as you want. But in keeping with the listserver example

above, we will call it listserver.

Here s what the file should look like:

welcome listserver

The first line should have a space between the two names and be uploaded in text format, not binary.

You can have multiple listservers, such as listserver1, listserver2, etc., but you should only have one

configuration file. It must be called infolist. To handle all three examples, you d make the infolist file look

like this, with each listserver on its own line, with no blank lines in between:

welcome listserver

welcome2 listserver2

welcome3 listserver3

2A) Now when someone wants to subscribe to your list in the above example, they would email

welcome@yourdomain.com. This would return the infobot created called "welcome" and put their email