Subject: Re: automatic response upon receiving mail?

From: [email-masked] (Dave Zavatson)
Date: 31 Dec 1996 09:07:58 GMT

Dwight Wilkins ([email-masked]) wrote:
: 
: 		A user recently asked how to have pine automatically 
: reply to pine, the example was if the user is on gone for an extended 
: time, the sender would receive a message that the user will be back in a 
: month, etc.  How exactly would 	I do this?
: 
: 
: 	PGP key:
: nyuknyuknyuknyukwoowoowoowoonarffiorddohhyukwe'rezanytothemaxetcetcetc

pine cannot do this, but you can tell the user about the unix vacation
utility.  Just run 'vacation' and it will walk you through the steps.
Read the man page for all sorts of options.

	-Dave

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