I use the following autoresponder when I'm away. This one implements an ACK
once. But I would like that people get max one ACK per week.
How can I do that?
Here's a simple solution:
If you have access to your system's cron facility, you can run a cron job
once a week that deletes your vacation.cache file. On many flavors of
unix, you can use 'crontab -e' to edit your crontab file; the crontab man
page usually has a good explanation of syntax.
Of course, if you're not able to use cron, the above solution won't work.
However, you could achieve the same effect, with a little more work,
through use of the 'find' command, and a datestamp file (i.e., when you do
the vacation.cache check, include a seperate condition that uses find to
(1) determine if the cache file is more than one week old; (2) if it is,
delete the cache file, and (3) update the datestamp file.
How to implement this is left as an exercise for the the reader, since
I've got a meeting to be at in a few minutes. If no one has a more
graceful solution (and I'm confident someone will), I might work this out
later today.
-- Lars
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