AutoReply(3pm)

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version 1.27 · 3 versions
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💌 AutoReply — the perl module page, but make it cute

okay bestie, so this is News::AutoReply, which lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation zone (that's the manual name, it's a 3pm page, iykyk). It's a lil derivative of News::Article that's specifically built for generating autoreplies — like, the automatic "hey I got ur message!" kind, but done properly. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

News::AutoReply — a derivative of News::Article for generating autoreplies. she's giving "I answer for you while you're away" 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the whole vibe in two lines:

use News::AutoReply;

$reply = News::AutoReply->new($message);

that's it. that's the tea. 🍓

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So, like News::Article, right? Same energy, same family. BUT — and this is the main character twist — you must hand her a reference to another article at creation time. She needs that original to work with, because she's gonna initialise To, In-Reply-To, References, etc. correctly as an automatic reply. No chaos headers, no broken threading, just clean reply vibes. ✨

💖 USAGE 💖

use News::AutoReply;

Exports nothing. nope, not a single thing, she's mysterious like that 🙈

🎀 Constructor 🎀

  • new ( ORIGINAL ) — okay so this constructs an autoreply to a message, and the whole thing hinges on assuming that the Reply-To header of ORIGINAL is valid — or, if Reply-To isn't there, then the From header. That's whose address she's replying to, periodt.

She returns you a brand new Article object that has no body and no envelope sender, but she does come with suitable headers all set up. iconic. 👑

Now here's the juicy bit: if an environment variable LOOP is defined, its value gets used as the contents of an X-Loop header that's added to the reply. Super handy when you're using this code in progs launched from a procmail recipe. 🌀 And she always preserves X-Loop headers that were in the original — no matter what, those survive.

also ngl, a heads up from the source itself: the reference-folding code could probably be improved. not saying it's bad, just saying the author said it, and we respect transparency 💀

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>

⭐ SOURCE ⭐

Contact the author. (yes literally, that's the whole source section, go say hi 🫶)

Copyright 1997 Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>

This code may be used and/or distributed under the same terms as Perl itself. slay, same license as Perl, we love to see it. 💜

and that's the whole page bestie!! 🎀 she's from perl v5.36.0 and this version is dated 2022-10-15 — so when you see AutoReply(3pm) floating around, you'll know exactly what's up. mwah 💋✨

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