Subject: HELP *** AUTO-RESPOND ***

From: Thomas binder <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 1996 17:43:14 +0200

Hi, 

i got a problem installing an auto-respond to all incoming mails.
I got a account on a LINUX-Server and therefore I use UNIX-Pine (Version
3.90 (built Tue Aug 22 19:50:49 CDT 1995)). I will be on vacation for a
long time and don't want my e-mail-partners going crazy on not getting a
response from me. 
I would like to reply to all messages with a standard text telling them,
that i am on vacation and won't be able to respond to my mails.

Is there any possibility to do that with pine????

I would be very happy to hear from you soon.
Please do also respond to the following E-mail-Adress.

Thanks...

Thomas ([email-masked])

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 18:10:48 -0400

> Is there any possibility to do that with pine????

    Pine will not do this for you.  However, because LINUX is a variant
of Un*x, you may have the program 'vacation' on your system.  If you do,
it will do what you want in a simple way.  If the program 'procmail' is
installed, it is a powerful mail processing program which can do many
things, including make automatic responses more elaborately than
vacation.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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