on Tue, 20 May 2003 09:34:56AM -0700, Mark Ferlatte insinuated:
> 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.
oh, good to know -- thanks!
> > 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.
i did, but apparently not carefully enough ;)
> 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.
excellent; thanks!
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