Difference between revisions of "Maintain Vacation replies"
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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. | ||
Revision as of 12:59, 26 July 2012
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.
Enable Vacation
Log in to a CSEE UNIX system.
Edit ~/.vacation.msg and write your autoreply message.
Initialize your vacation database with
vacation -i
Edit ~/.forward and make sure it only contains the following, replacing each username with your username
\username, "|/usr/bin/vacation username"
Disable Vacation
Either delete ~/.forward or return the .forward contents to what it was before changing it when enabling Vacation.
