Subject: Request of information

From: Daniele Brancati <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 16:53:24 +0100 (MET)

I am a new user of Pine program and i have a question, if i go away for a 
few days and somebody send a mail how i can send automatically a message 
in which there is written that i have gone away and i can't respond, 
there is way until Pine could respond automatically with a my message?

				Thank you

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From: [email-masked] (David Mullaney)
Date: 25 Jan 1996 21:47:37 GMT

Daniele Brancati ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I am a new user of Pine program and i have a question, if i go away for a 
: few days and somebody send a mail how i can send automatically a message 
: in which there is written that i have gone away and i can't respond, 
: there is way until Pine could respond automatically with a my message?

See man pages, other threads in this group or a pine FAQ about
.forward and the vacation -i utility

contents of my ~/.forward file when I'm on vacation:
\mullaney, "|vacation mullaney"

contents of my .vacation.msg file...
From: [email-masked] (David Mullaney)
Subject: I am on vacation
Precedence: bulk

I will be out of the office January 10-12, 1996.
If you have a question about who to contact, check out the
Ignition Team homepage at URL:
   http://hpfcdn.fc.hp.com/
or my homepage at URL:
   http://hpfcdn.fc.hp.com/~mullaney/homepage.shtml

Have a good week!  (You should only get this message once)

-David Mullaney

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 09:30:03 +0000 (GMT)

Think of yourself walking to your front door in the morning and picking 
up the envelopes, opening them, and reading their contents.  This is what 
Pine lets you do: read messages *after* they have been delivered to your 
electronic mail address.

Now think of yourself going away on holiday for some months :-).  You 
would want to ask the postman delivering your letters to "do something" 
with them.  This may involve throwing them away(! - so you could open the 
front door when you got back?), delivering them to a friand's address, or 
(if they were Truly Wonderful) pushing the letters through your door but 
also sending a note back to the sender warning them it might be some time 
before they get a reply.

What I'm trying to say is that you need to intercept the mail *delivery* 
mechanism in this case; by the time they have been delivered and Pine can 
get to the messages it is too late.

So what you need to do is ask at your local Help Desk or Support Centre 
how to do this.  If you are using a UNIX computer it will almost 
certainly involve two steps:

1.  Set up a filter program to look at arriving messages to determine who the
    sender is and construct a reply to send back.  On most UNIX systems one
    of these is already available called "vacation".  You can read about it
    and how to use it by giving the "man vacation" command.

2.  You then need to persuade the e-mail delivery system to deliver an
    arriving message into your mailbox AND pass a copy to "vacation" (or 
    whatever filter program you use).  This is done by creating a file in
    your home directory called ".forward" with appropriate contents.

If you have "vacation" on your computers its manual page should give you 
step by step instructions on how to set all this up.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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The Computing Service, University of York, Heslington, York, YO1 5DD, UK
Tel: +44-1904-433811  FAX: +44-1904-433740  http://www.york.ac.uk/~pmb1/

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 12:00:35 -0500

> there is way until Pine could respond automatically with a my message?

    Pine will not do this for you.  You have to employ some agent which 
will process the incoming mail and still leave a copy in your mailbox.  
You did not say what operating system you are using Pine with, so there 
is no single answer to your question.  If you are on some type of Unix 
system, there is a program called 'vacation' which you may be able to 
use.  Some people use a more elaborate program called 'procmail'.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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From: [email-masked] (What is a Hayes?)
Date: 28 Jan 1996 18:05:58 -0500

try the unix command called 'vacation'... that should work for you

25 Jan 1996 08:08:43 -0800 wrote:

: 				Thank you