NAME

       News::AutoReply - derivative of News::Article for generating autoreplies

SYNOPSIS

         use News::AutoReply;

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

DESCRIPTION

       Like News::Article, but must be given a reference to another article at creation time -
       initialises To, In-Reply-To, References etc.  correctly as an automatic reply.

USAGE

         use News::AutoReply;

       Exports nothing.

Constructor

       new ( ORIGINAL )
           Construct an autoreply to a message, assuming that the Reply-To (if present, otherwise
           the From) header of "ORIGINAL" is valid.

           Returns a new Article object with no body or envelope sender, but with suitable
           headers.

           If an environment variable LOOP is defined, it is used as the contents of an X-Loop
           header added to the reply (this is useful when using this code in progs launched from
           a procmail recipe). Always preserves X-Loop headers in the original.

           The reference-folding code could probably be improved.

AUTHOR

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

SOURCE

       Contact the author.

COPYRIGHT

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

       This code may be used and/or distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.