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Re: handling mail for users on vacation

2007-12-13 15:18:07
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Troy Piggins wrote:

TP> 
TP> Just after sending this I had an idea.  I could set up a cronjob, or an "at"
TP> task, that sets a variable, say $ON_HOLS, to "yes" or something and another
TP> variable, say $FWD_TO_ME, to the designated username.  Then in the global
TP> procmailrc have a rule that checks if $ON_HOLS is "yes" and if it is, 
forward
TP> to $FWD_TO_ME.
TP> 
TP> What do you think?  Better way?
TP> 
TP> 

I am not familiar with postfix but under sendmail the way to do it 
would surely be just to set up an alias in /etc/mail/aliases rather than 
using procmail.

-- 
Alan


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