Subject: PINE and Automated message

From: [email-masked] (Sandra Wald)
Date: 18 Jul 1995 19:25:25 GMT

Hi,

I have an user who asked if when he is on vacation, if PINE could reply
automatically to all incoming mail with a message text saying the user is gone
and will be back at such and such date.

thanks in advance,
Sandra

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From: Ralf Wenzel <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 11:22:40 +0100

> and will be back at such and such date.

I had the problem a few weeks ago, but I got the answere, that pine is 
not able to do that. Trz 'vacation' at your system prompt or use elm for 
automatically messaging.

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 23:25:42 +0800 (GMT)

> not able to do that. Trz 'vacation' at your system prompt or use elm for 

	Please note that elm itself does not send "vacation notices".  The
elm distribution comes with a routine called "autoreply".  However,
that routine has a security hole and the author has advised against the
use of "autoreply".  

	As you said, the vacation program will produce the desired
results sans security problems.

					Ed

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From: [email-masked] (David Mullaney)
Date: 20 Jul 1995 17:17:40 GMT

Sandra Wald ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hi,
: I have an user who asked if when he is on vacation, if PINE could reply
: automatically to all incoming mail with a message text saying user is gone
: and will be back at such and such date.

On a UNIX machine, at the shell prompt, enter

  man vacation

It will tell you about the .vacation utility in conjunction with the .forward
file.  (and the answer to your user's question is YES )

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