Nori Heikkinen said on Tue, May 20, 2003 at 03:04:02AM -0400: > 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 Actually, vacation notices mailing lists, and won't respond to them automatically. At least, I've never had it spam a mailing list. > 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? Read the vacation manpage. You need to run vacation -i before you use it in order to initialize it's BerkeleyDB files. It also won't reply everytime; see the -r option for how to set the interval between autoreponses. M
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