autoresponder-like question

[George Toft]

How about including a link to a web page: "If you
need this resent, click here."  Then when they
click on that link, it downloads the zip file for 
them as the link goes to the zip file in question.
This is much simpler than what you are asking.

Just a thought.

George


"David P. Schwartz" wrote:
> 
> I send out some reports attached to emails each
> week.  Invariably, a few people complain that they
> can't open the attachment and they need me to
> re-send it.  It's really a major PITA!  I'm
> looking for some solution that can handle these
> sort of requests without administrative
> intervention on my part.
> 
> Here's one idea I've got.  To put some meat on the
> example, suppose I'm sending out a new recipe each
> week in an email, and there's an attachment with
> some related stuff in a ZIP file.
> 
> So, let's say there's an email address added to
> each distribution list that goes to a "bucket",
> eg., backuplist.recipe@thedomain.com (maybe a
> regular POP3 mailbox is fine).  Then, when people
> can't read an attachment, they'd simply send a
> request to another email address (eg.,
> resend.recipe@thedomain.com) specifying the name
> of the desired recipe's file attachment (or recipe
> name) in the subject header.
> 
> At the other end, "something" would intercept all
> emails addressed to a users matching the pattern
> "resend.*@thedomain.com" and search through the
> emails in the bucket (or mailbox) for one that
> contains the specified attachment.  If found, it
> would be sent out to the sender's email address.
> If not, an error mail would be sent back along
> with a list of all the files it DID find.
> 
> A bonus feature would be that it checks the
> request to be sure that the sender's email address
> is contained somewhere in the header of the mail
> containing the attachment.  That way, only people
> who are on the distribution list could ask for
> files to be re-sent.
> 
> Does anybody know of anything that behaves
> remotely similar to this?  Or that handles this
> problem in a different way?
> 
> TIA!
> -David
> 
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