Subject: How to set up a Vacation Auto-respond?

From: [email-masked] (C Lassiter)
Date: 27 Jun 1996 16:55:20 GMT

Well, that pretty much says it all.  When one is away, how does one set 
up an autoresponse informing others to contact someone else in the 
office--so they won't wonder why they're getting no response for 10 days.

Thanks.

cl
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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 12:24:05 +0100 (BST)

Short answer:  This is nothing to do with Pine (which is only for reading
messages AFTER they have been delivered).

Longer answer:  Instead you have to persuade the mail delivery software
your computers use to generate the automatic reply.  UNIX systems
typically have a program called "vacation" to do this.  Try doing a "man
vacation" to read its manual page on how it is used.  If you need further
assistance (problems understanding the man page, vacation not installed on
your system, etc) try asking your local support centre (who'll know far
better than us random people around the world what software they have
installed on their computers:-)

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: [email-masked] (Jie Yuan)
Date: 10 Jul 1996 18:30:51 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
>office--so they won't wonder why they're getting no response for 10 days.

If you are on Unix, do a "man vacation" for more info.  Any way, Pine 
does not do this kind of chore.

Jie 
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From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 10:29:19 +0300 (EET DST)

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We had set up the vacation utility to auto answer but it did not
decode MIME messages when we wanted to include a piece of the
received message (the subject for instance) in the answer.

Does anybody know if procmail or any other auto answer package
can do this properly?

Thank you,

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