Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 05:13:58 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Procmail rule Message-ID: <15069.26854.296346.878892@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <34660157@toto.iv>
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[I'd reply to the original author, but I don't have the addres.....] Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> types: > On Tuesday, 17 April 2001 at 10:48:08 -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > > I'm looking for a very basic procmail rule that will reply to *every* > > mail sent to a user with something like "Out of the office - back > > monday". > Please don't send replies of this nature to mailing lists. That's a particularly stupid way to handle sending out of office notifications. Even if the user in question is has nothing but internal email, do you *really* want your mail spool filled up because someone sent out mail saying "I'm now on vacation" to everyone - including someone how has that rule installed - after installing the rule? The vacation program (in /usr/bin on FreeBSD) does a much better job. For instance, it ignores mail to lists. It also keeps track of who's been sent the "Out of Office" message, and doesn't send multiple copies - which pretty much prevents loops as above. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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