On 30 Jun 1997 17:21:22 +0100, Sarah Phibbs
<sarah(_dot_)phibbs(_at_)oum(_dot_)ox(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk> wrote:
Someone here is working abroad for 3 months,and wants to
send a message to anyone who tries to email him saying that
he is away, and then he wants to delete the incoming
message. He does not want to save a copy of any of his
incoming mail.
I have used the .forward file to set up a vacation message,
and then to invoke procmail. The .forward file reads thus:-
\ssimpson,"|vacation ssimpson"
"|IFS=' ' exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75"
If you don't want to store the original message, you don't need
procmail for that. Anyhow, the \ssimpson will bypass Procmail anyway,
and save a message to ssimpson's mailbox no matter what.
Just take out everything you don't need, and you're left with
"|vacation ssimpson"
Having said that, you can construct much more spectacular vacation
recipes with Procmail. ;-) And vacation should probably be set up so
as to not respond to the same recipient many times in a short period
of time. (See the vacation manual for details.)
:0
/dev/nul
/dev/null has two ells. Not that it matters now.
Hope this helps,
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