From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 18 22: 5: 7 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0741437B401 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 22:05:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from vega.unicks.net (h158n1fls31o858.telia.com [213.65.92.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF5443F85 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 22:05:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from markus@markus.pp.se) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by vega.unicks.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h2J65057095168; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 07:05:00 +0100 (CET) From: mackan Message-Id: <200303190605.h2J65057095168@vega.unicks.net> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 07:05:00 +0100 To: Dragoncrest Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail reply message question References: <4.2.0.58.20030318175240.00975cf0@pop.voyager.net> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20030318175240.00975cf0@pop.voyager.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Dragoncrest : > I'm looking for a simple way to allow sendmail to automatically > email the sender a returned message stating like "So and so is on vacation" > or "please direct all questions to user@domain" depending on who it's > addressed to. If your mail setup is OK and functioning properly, each user may use the vacation program. See the man page details. > The other thing it has to do is appear as though it came from the same > said user1@mydomain.com so as not to confuse the customer. I'm sure there > is a simple way to do this and I'm just being blind. Can anyone point me > in the right direction or tell me how to set this up? Thanks. man vacation :) NAME vacation - E-mail auto-responder DESCRIPTION Vacation returns a message, ~/.vacation.msg by default, to the sender informing them that you are currently not read- ing your mail. The message is only sent to each sender once per reply interval (see -r below). The intended use is in a .forward file. Take care, -mackan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message