Anne Wilson schrieb:
On Saturday 13 January 2007 18:34, Johan Boshoff wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to set up a vacation notice for some users on my Fedora 4
system using sendmail. I have never done this yet and I am not getting it
right. Can anyone please point me in a direction? Any documetns etc will
be welcome.
I was wondering how to automatically create a .forward file and a .vacation
file.
Hi, Johan. I set a vacation reply in procmail based on an example I found on
the Internet somewhere. This is what it said:
# :0 h c
# * !^FROM_DAEMON
# * !^X-Loop: me@xxxxxxxxxxxx
# | (formail -r -I"Precedence: junk" \
# -A"X-Loop: me@xxxxxxxxxxxx" ; \
# echo "This is the autoresponder at myCompanyName \
# Your message will be received on the 3rd May, on our return from holiday
\
# Thank you for your patience.") | $SENDMAIL -t
HTH
Anne
Independent from this implementation it has to be said as a warning that
running autoresponders you will hit innocent third mail addresses which
are faked by spammers.
Above procmail implementation isn't useful as it will reply each time a
sender writes a mail. The vacation application would store sender
addresses and repeats the automatic reply only once in 30 days.
Johan can get the vacation as a src.rpm from my site:
http://www.uni-x.org/vacation-1.2.6.1-3.ad.src.rpm
Usage is explained in the manpage.
Besides the vacation topic: Johan, update your FC4 as it is EOL and even
fedoralegacy stopped to security support that release. It is not safe to
run a public reachable mailserver on it.
Alexander
