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From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
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To: "Oleg V. Naumann" <oleg@reis.zp.ua>
CC: Carey Nairn <C.Nairn@dpac.tas.gov.au>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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Oleg V. Naumann said:
>On 22-Apr-98 Carey Nairn wrote:
>> Hi People,
>> 
>> I am looking for a program (or the way to set up) to cat the contents of a
>> text file as an automatic mail response.
>
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>        man vacation
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>        With best wishes
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>E-Mail: Oleg V. Naumann <oleg@reis.zp.ua>
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Or if you want to be a little more selective (responding only to messages
where the subject is 'get file', or whatever), try procmail.  The manpages
have examples of how to do this exact thing.

	Scott

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