Alan K. Stebbens writes on 9 December 1996 at 06:28:52
I'm going to be gone for two weeks. Most people I deal with are
> used to me answering my email almost immediately. I want to do a
> mini-vacation program, sending messages only to those who send me
[...]
* !? grep -s "$SENDER" notified
One minor tweak that the standard "vacation" program does on some
systems: the message get's sent out every week, that way people who
mail you often are reminded weekly you're on vacation.
Within procmail itself you can do this using "formail -D", I like my
"expired" utility which lets you specify exactly one week instead of
approximating that with the size of your cache file. Of course
techniques using "date" are also possible...
Dan
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