Maintain Vacation replies - Revision history

Ii69854 at 17:55, 14 March 2025

2025-03-14T17:55:30Z

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	Vacation allows for an autoreply email to be sent to every sender of every email received. The sender only gets one vacation autoreply message, even if multiple messages are sent. Emails coming from nefarious sources will also be sent an email.		Vacation allows for an autoreply email to be sent to every sender of every email received. The sender only gets one vacation autoreply message, even if multiple messages are sent. Emails coming from nefarious sources will also be sent an email.

	Vacation needs to be manually activated and deactivated.		Vacation needs to be manually activated and deactivated, and as of March 20th 2025 can only be managed using the webmail interface at [https://webmail.cs.umbc.edu webmail.cs.umbc.edu].

	==Enable Vacation==		==Enable Vacation==

2025-03-14T17:18:57Z

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	Vacation needs to be manually activated and deactivated.		Vacation needs to be manually activated and deactivated.

	~~If procmail is being used in the ~/.forward file, you have to use the setup shown at the [https://www.csee.umbc.edu/systems/index.php/SpamAssassin/ClamAV "Using with Vacation" section].~~

	==Enable Vacation==		==Enable Vacation==

2025-03-14T17:18:39Z

Disable Vacation

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	==Disable Vacation==		==Disable Vacation==
	~~Either delete ~/.forward or return~~ the ~~.forward contents~~ to ~~what it was before changing it when enabling Vacation~~.		Do the same as above, but change "status" to off.

2025-03-14T17:18:20Z

Enable Vacation

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	==Enable Vacation==		==Enable Vacation==
	~~Log in to a CSEE UNIX system.~~

	~~Edit ~/.vacation.msg and write your autoreply message. Full email headers need to be included in the message (full headers, blank line, and then message body). Here is an example~~:		[[File:Vacation.webm\|1900px]]
	~~From: johndoe@cs.umbc.edu (John Doe)~~
	~~Subject: I am on vacation~~

	~~I am on vacation until July 22. If you have something urgent,~~
	~~please contact Jane Doe <janedoe@cs.umbc.edu>~~.
	~~--john~~

			# Select the "Settings" gear icon.
	~~Initialize your vacation database with~~		# Choose "out of office."
	~~vacation -i~~		# Edit the fields as you desire. Make sure you to change "status" to on.
			# Select "save."
	Edit ~/.~~forward and make~~ sure ~~it only contains the following, replacing each username with your username~~
	~~\username,~~ "~~\|/usr/bin/vacation username~~"

	==Disable Vacation==		==Disable Vacation==
	Either delete ~/.forward or return the .forward contents to what it was before changing it when enabling Vacation.		Either delete ~/.forward or return the .forward contents to what it was before changing it when enabling Vacation.

2022-07-12T22:08:07Z

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	Vacation needs to be manually activated and deactivated.		Vacation needs to be manually activated and deactivated.

			If procmail is being used in the ~/.forward file, you have to use the setup shown at the [https://www.csee.umbc.edu/systems/index.php/SpamAssassin/ClamAV "Using with Vacation" section].

	==Enable Vacation==		==Enable Vacation==

2012-07-26T18:06:14Z

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	Log in to a CSEE UNIX system.		Log in to a CSEE UNIX system.

	Edit ~/.vacation.msg and write your autoreply message. Full email headers need to be included in the message. Here is an example:		Edit ~/.vacation.msg and write your autoreply message. Full email headers need to be included in the message (full headers, blank line, and then message body). Here is an example:
	From: johndoe@cs.umbc.edu (John Doe)		From: johndoe@cs.umbc.edu (John Doe)
	Subject: I am on vacation		Subject: I am on vacation

2012-07-26T18:05:30Z

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	From: johndoe@cs.umbc.edu (John Doe)		From: johndoe@cs.umbc.edu (John Doe)
	Subject: I am on vacation		Subject: I am on vacation

	I am on vacation until July 22. If you have something urgent,		I am on vacation until July 22. If you have something urgent,
	please contact Jane Doe <janedoe@cs.umbc.edu>.		please contact Jane Doe <janedoe@cs.umbc.edu>.

2012-07-26T18:05:16Z

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	Log in to a CSEE UNIX system.		Log in to a CSEE UNIX system.

	Edit ~/.vacation.msg and write your autoreply message.		Edit ~/.vacation.msg and write your autoreply message. Full email headers need to be included in the message. Here is an example:
			From: johndoe@cs.umbc.edu (John Doe)
			Subject: I am on vacation

			I am on vacation until July 22. If you have something urgent,
			please contact Jane Doe <janedoe@cs.umbc.edu>.
			--john


	Initialize your vacation database with		Initialize your vacation database with

2012-07-26T17:59:50Z

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	Vacation allows for an autoreply email to be sent to every sender of every email received. The sender only gets one vacation autoreply message, even if multiple messages are sent.		Vacation allows for an autoreply email to be sent to every sender of every email received. The sender only gets one vacation autoreply message, even if multiple messages are sent. Emails coming from nefarious sources will also be sent an email.

	Vacation needs to be manually activated and deactivated.		Vacation needs to be manually activated and deactivated.

2012-07-26T17:57:51Z

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	vacation -i		vacation -i

	Edit ~/.forward ~~with~~ the following, replacing username with your username		Edit ~/.forward and make sure it only contains the following, replacing each username with your username
	\username, "\|/usr/bin/vacation username"		\username, "\|/usr/bin/vacation username"

	==Disable Vacation==		==Disable Vacation==
			Either delete ~/.forward or return the .forward contents to what it was before changing it when enabling Vacation.