Subject: pines set-up info

From: Silvano Janko <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:20:44 +0100 (MET)

Please pine-info,

can you send me an answer how I can set-up this in PINE:

In which way PINE can be set-up for "autorespond an notification to the
sender e-mail address of the incoming mail that the e-mail was received at
the receiving user server but the user can't  temporary read the message
because isn't present in some period of time"? 

Thank You very much!

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From: Constantin Gonzalez <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:35:47 +0100 (MET)

Hi,

> because isn't present in some period of time"?

Short answer: It's not Pine's job, ask your EMail System administrator on how
to do this.

Long answer:

This is out of the current scope for pine. The way Pine is architectured, it
acts only when the user starts it up, not in an automagical way when EMail
is being received.

What you need to do the above is a program called "vacation". If your EMail
resides on a Unix server and if your server allows you to run programs whenever
an EMail is received for you by the system (through the .forward-mechanism),
then you can use "vacation". Most Unix users fall under this category. Do a
"man vacation" to find out more about this useful little program.

If you use PC Pine (or some other non Unix implementation), but your server
resides on a Unix system and you have access to it, then you can as well use
"vacation".

Other, more powerful alternatives to vacation include procmail:

  http://www.procmail.org/

If your EMail resides on a Windows, Mac or some other EMail system, then you
are at the mercy of whatever your EMail system allows you to do with incoming
mail on an automated basis. Ask your EMail administrator.

In the Windows world, Outlook has a proprietary mechanism to talk to a
Microsoft Exchange server and negotiate mail-autoresponding while you are
away. The user gets the impression that this is a functionality of the EMail
client while in reality it's the server that does the work.

As for Pine, it would be a nice thing to include vacation and/or procmail
configuration integration into the Pine user interface to facilitate such
functionality, at least on Unix systems.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
   Constantin

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