From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 19 14:53:32 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 8AAEC37B404 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 14:53:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragoncrest.jasnetworks.net (dragoncrest.jasnetworks.net [65.194.254.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4296D43FAF for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 14:53:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dragoncrest@voyager.net) Received: from works (works.jasnetworks.net [192.168.0.2]) by dragoncrest.jasnetworks.net (8.12.8/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h2JJ2BTr065880; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:02:12 GMT (envelope-from dragoncrest@voyager.net) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20030319180407.0098be90@pop.voyager.net> X-Sender: dragoncrest@pop.voyager.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:04:30 -0500 To: mackan From: Dragoncrest Subject: Re: Sendmail reply message question Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200303190605.h2J65057095168@vega.unicks.net> References: <4.2.0.58.20030318175240.00975cf0@pop.voyager.net> <4.2.0.58.20030318175240.00975cf0@pop.voyager.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 Oh gads. I'm a noob. I can't believe I forgot about that. Darn this old age. :) At 07:05 AM 3/19/03 +0100, mackan wrote: >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