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! </nori> -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/ // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net ^`~'^ get my (*new*) key here: http://www.maenad.net/geek/gpg/7ede5499.asc (please *remove* old key 11e031f1!)
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