Vacation ---- auto-reply
The vacation program which I use on our Campus Email server
does not do this. To bad more don't use it.
>From the 'vacation' man page:
No message will be sent unless login (or an alias supplied using
the -a option) is part of either the ``To:'' or ``Cc:'' headers of
the mail. No messages from
``???-REQUEST'', ``Postmaster'', ``UUCP'', ``MAILER'', or
``MAILER-DAEMON'' will be replied to (where these strings are
case insensitive) nor is a notification sent if
a ``Precedence: bulk'', ``Precedence: list'' or
``Precedence: junk'' line is included in the mail
headers. The people who have sent you messages are
maintained as a
db(3) database in the file .vacation.db in your home
directory.
I have the vacation program working for our Campus Mailserver.
>I'm sorry about all the trouble with the auto-reply that everyone is
>getting, I am disabling this users account now. Again I apologise for
>the hassle.
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*Theodore Knab
*Washington College
*Maryland, USA
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