Subject: Re: how do I automatically send a message

From: [email-masked] (Sylvain Robitaille)
Date: 27 Feb 1997 06:22:48 GMT

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997 12:33:01 -0600, [email-masked] <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I was wondering how to send a message automatically that tells people that
>I'm not around on a certain account anymore and tell them how to reach me.
>Is there a way to do this in pine (UNIX)?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>--Jody
>
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You should be able to get the vacation program to do this for you. On our
school system you proceed as follows, (yours may differ slightly - you'll have
to look into this locally):

Start by creating a vacation.msg file containing the message you want to
disply to folks who send you email, and place this in your home directory. At
a command prompt, type vacation -I (that's a capital i, not a small L). This
will create a couple of files in your directory which the vacation program
will use. Last, create a .forward file containing:

\user_id, "| /path/to/vacation user_id"

Then test it to be sure it works. You will find more info than I can give with
man vacation. Also to find out what to put in place of /path/to/vacation, try
where vacation, which will tell you where it finds the executable file named
vacation.

Hope that helps...

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 09:28:10 -0500

> Is there a way to do this in pine (UNIX)?

    Pine will not do this.  It is not designed to do so.  However, on a
Un*x system there may be more than one way, depending on whether or not
you still have an account on the original system.  For a task like
this, I would recommend that you check with your help desk (if it
exists) or system administrator.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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