Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 14:43:04 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Mark Thomas' <thomas@clark.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: procmail or .forward for "vacation" program. Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105AEC@site2s1>
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Ok.. I read right though that line.. how about this rule then? Hopefully
this will be the last one? :P
Thanks for all your help,
Chris
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:0:
* !^Precedence:.bulk
{
:0 c:
| "/usr/bin/vacation -a cjm2"
:0:
$ORGMAIL
}
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Thomas [SMTP:thomas@clark.net]
> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 1999 2:06 PM
> To: Christopher Michaels
> Subject: RE: procmail or .forward for "vacation" program.
>
> At 01:12 PM 7/25/99 -0400, you wrote:
> > Ok, given this, should I maybe make my rule instead say the
> >following, or does it not matter since it's the last rule in the file?
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > :0:
> > | "/usr/bin/vacation -a cjm2"
> > $ORGMAIL
> > ---------------------------------------------
>
> To tell the truth I'm not familiar with vacation. I usually just set up a
> cc rule in procmail with a 'I'm on vacation' message. What you have isn't
> a
> valid procmail rule though. You can only specify one destination line I
> think. You could do:
>
> :0 c:
> | "/usr/bin/vacation -a cjm2"
>
> :0:
> $ORIGMAIL
>
> Actually, the second part is unneeded, because when you fall off the end,
> the mail is delivered normally, so just:
>
> :0 c:
> | "/usr/bin/vacation -a cjm2"
>
> Will do the vacation stuff, then deliver normally. I'd test to be sure
> though :)
>
> > I really just use it to dump my mailing lists, and cron output,
> >etc.. into different folders, but that's definitely a good idea. If I
> read
> >properly, vacation is smart enough not to get into any loops, isn't it?
>
> Hmmm. I never trust programs not to be stupid :)
>
>
> Mark
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