The autoresponder.exe utility is used to manage mail autoresponders. 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

Location

%plesk_cli%

Usage 

autoresponder.exe <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 file system.

plesk bin autoresponder.exe --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
--update or -u  

Changes autoresponder settings.

Requires -mail option.

To reply to mail messages received by JohnDoe@example.com using autoresponder with the Automatic Reply Message subject:

plesk bin autoresponder.exe --update -mail JDoe@example.com -subject "An autoreply message"

or

plesk bin autoresponder.exe -u -mail JDoe@example.com -subject "Automatic Reply Message"

--info or -i  

Displays information about a mail autoresponder.

Requires -mail option.

To view information about autoresponder for the mail account JDoe@example.com:

plesk bin autoresponder.exe --info -mail JDoe@example.com

or

plesk bin autoresponder.exe -i -mail JDoe@example.com

--help or -h   Displays help on the utility usage.

To view help on the use of the autoresponder utility:

plesk bin autoresponder.exe --help

or

plesk bin autoresponder.exe -h

Options

Option Parameter Description Example
-mail <email>

Specifies a mail account for which an autoresponder is created.

Required with --update and --info commands.

To create mail autoresponder for JDoe@example.com:

autoresponder.exe -u -mail JDoe@example.com -status true

-status true|false

Enables/Disables an autoresponder.

Is false by default.

To enable autoresponder for JDoe@example.com:

plesk bin autoresponder.exe -u -mail JDoe@example.com -status true

subject <string>

Specifies the subject line of the automatic reply message for an autoresponder.

Is Re:<incoming_message_subject> by default.

To reply to mail messages received by JohnDoe@example.com using autoresponder with the Help information subject:

plesk bin autoresponder.exe -u -mail JDoe@example.com -subject "Help information"

-text <string> Specifies 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.exe -u -mail JDoe@example.com -text "Thank you for your inquiry."

-redirect <email> Specifies an e-mail 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.exe -u -mail JDoe@example.com -redirect help@example.com

-format plain|html 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.exe -u -mail JDoe@example.com -format html

-charset <string> 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.exe -u -mail JDoe@example.com -charset UTF-8

-attach add|del:<file_name>[,<file_name_1>,...,<file name_N>]

Adds/Removes attached files to/from autoresponder’s automatic reply message.

Used with the --create and --update commands only.

To add files sampleschedule.txt and applicationform.txt from the file system to the autoresponder for JDoe@example.com:

plesk bin autoresponder.exe -u -mail JDoe@example.com -attach add:sampleschedule.txt,applicationform.txt

-frq <number> 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.exe -u -mail JDoe@example.com -frq 5

-end-date off|<YYYY-MM-DD> 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.exe -u -mail JDoe@example.com -end-date 2015-12-31