autoresponder
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An autoresponder is a computer program that automatically answers e-mail sent to it.
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An autoresponder is a computer program that automatically answers e-mail sent to it.
The first autoresponders were created within mail transfer agents that found they could not deliver an e-mail to a given address. These create bounce messages such as "your e-mail could not be delivered because..." type responses. Today's autoresponders need to be careful to not generate e-mail backscatter, which can result in the autoresponses being considered e-mail spam.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “autoresponder” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.