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Re: Auto reply during vacation

1997-05-11 01:41:00
A Satpathy har May 10, ytret følgende ord om ,,Auto reply during vacation'':
:     * Is there any way to control the outgoing mails ? I am not sys admin.
:       so i can't do it using sendmail (i think).

What do you really want to do ?
You can configure your mua to use a different delivery agent, or to use
different parameters. Thus you can specify the -C option to sendmail
to use an alternate config file (I checked the man page on OSF4.0, I
don't really know how it is on other systems :-),
or you can write a script or procmail filter to do what you want, before
the mail is forwarded.

:     * How can I able to send a auto respond during vacation to the sender
:       I mean what are the rules I should write in my .procmailrc file.
:       Also it should keep track of the persons so that if a person have 
:       seen the vacation message he should not get the same message again.

This is covered by the procmailex(5) man page, but you should probably
add a test on recipients name to avoid making vacation replies to any
lists... e.g.
* ^TO(1st(_at_)address|2nd(_at_)addres)


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