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Re: vacation



Nori Heikkinen said on Fri, May 16, 2003 at 02:46:20PM -0400:
> i'm going away for the weekend, and want to put up an auto-responder
> to let people know that i will be away.  what do people usually use
> for this?  i checked out the vacation package, but it wants to use my
> .forward file, which i have piping mail to procmail, and i don't want
> to change that.  i found a cool procmail recipe online that seems like
> it should do what i want --
> http://acd.ucar.edu/~fredrick/linux/vacation.html -- but it doesn't
> seem to be (test account == nori@roc.sccs.swarthmore.edu).
> 
> advice on how people usually do this would be much appreciated.

Just use procmail to pipe your mail to the vacation program, ie:

# Vacation
:0 c
| /usr/bin/vacation nori

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