Subject: vacation msg

From: Luba Marshalkina <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 22:10:51 -0800 (PST)

Hello how can i activate the vacation message in Pine?

Thank you,
Luba.

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From: Norbert Koch <[email-masked]>
Date: 25 Nov 1997 07:38:19 +0100

>>>>> "LM" == Luba Marshalkina <[email-masked]> writes:

Hi,

 LM> Hello how can i activate the vacation message in Pine?

what about 'man vacation'?

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Cute signature, really :-/

l8er, norbert.

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From: Luba Marshalkina <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 22:45:28 -0800 (PST)

ok i did man vacation before i mailed, first: not on all UNIX machines
this option is installed and second even if it's installed i have to have
empty /var/mai/<username> file
I'm trying to  find a way to use vacation without deleting all msgs i
already have

Luba.

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 25 Nov 1997 10:07:16 +0100

>> Regarding Re: vacation msg; Luba Marshalkina <[email-masked]>
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LM> ok i did man vacation before i mailed, first: not on all UNIX
LM> machines this option is installed and second even if it's
LM> installed i have to have empty /var/mai/<username> file I'm
LM> trying to find a way to use vacation without deleting all msgs
LM> i already have

Are we talking about the same vacation program? Since this is a faq,
I'll just include the important part of the man page. Read it and see
if it says "delete all your old mail". BTW, vacation can be installed
locally, too, so you can grab it from your favourite ftp server.

Robin

VACATION(1)                                           VACATION(1)
NAME
       vacation - reply to mail automatically
SYNOPSIS
       vacation [ -I | -i ]
       vacation  [ -j ] [ -a alias ] [ -tN ] [ -r ] [ -?  ] user
       name
DESCRIPTION
       vacation automatically  replies  to  incoming  mail.   The
       reply  is contained in the file .vacation.msg in your home
       directory.  The vacation program  run  interactively  will
       create  a .vacation.msg file for you (which you may edit).
       Type vacation with no arguments.  (See USAGE below.)
       For example, the message created by vacation is:
              Subject: away from my mail
              From:  smith (via the vacation program)
              I will not be reading my mail for a while. Your
              mail regarding "$SUBJECT" will be
              read when I return.
       The .vacation.msg file should include  a  header  with  at
       least  a  'Subject:'  line  (it should not contain a 'To:'
       line and need not contain a 'From:' line, since these  are
       generated automatically).
       The  fields  'From', 'From:' and 'Reply-To:' are evaluated
[...]
USAGE
       To start vacation, create a .forward  file  in  your  home
       directory containing a line of the form:
              \username, "|/usr/ucb/vacation username"
       where username is your login name.
       Then type in the command:
              vacation -I
       To  stop vacation, remove the .forward file, or move it to
       a new name.
       If vacation is run with no arguments, it will create a new
       .vacation.msg  file for you, using the editor specified by
       the VISUAL or EDITOR environment  variable,  or  vi(1)  if
       neither  of  those  environment  variables  are set.  If a
       .forward file is not present in your  home  directory,  it
       creates it for you, and automatically performs a 'vacation
       -I' function, turning on vacation.
FILES
       $HOME/.forward
       $HOME/.vacation.msg

       A list of senders is kept in the file .vacation.db in your
       home directory.

LM> Luba.

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Nice signature...

Robin

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