From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 18 3:14: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C398337B422 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 03:13:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 16791 invoked by uid 100); 18 Apr 2001 10:13:58 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15069.26854.296346.878892@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 05:13:58 -0500 To: Greg Lehey Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Procmail rule In-Reply-To: <34660157@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [I'd reply to the original author, but I don't have the addres.....] Greg Lehey 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. 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