on Sat, 17 May 2003 07:57:07AM -0500, Shyamal Prasad insinuated:
> "Paul" == Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> writes:
>
> Paul> On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 02:46:20PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen
> Paul> wrote:
> >> i'm going away for the weekend, and want to put up an
> >> auto-responder to let people know that i will be away.
>
> Paul> Oh, please don't.
it's useful for some purposes -- i want certain people to know I'm out
of town, and therefore not responding to my email on the usual
three-minute turnaround i usually have.
> Paul> You wouldn't believe how annoying those
> Paul> autoresponders are on a mailing list when they can't figure
> Paul> out who it really came from.
>
> A properly setup/designed auto-responder should not respond to mail
> that originated in a mailing list. In recent years Microsoft Outlook
> has given autoresponders a really bad name.
word. i fully intend to *not* auto-reply to mailing lists and such,
and i'm guessing that procmail with vacation are properly
setup/designed auto-responders ... i'd just need to configure it
correctly.
:0 c
| /usr/bin/vacation nori
wouldn't quite do it, eh? would
:0 c
* !^FROM_DAEMON
* !^X-Loop: nori@roc.sccs.swarthmore.edu
|/usr/bin/vacation nori
do it?
that doesn't seem to do it, though ... i've got a valid email with
headers as my .vacation.msg, and the invocation is as you see above.
i get nothing back from my test account. any ideas?
thanks,
</nori>
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