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Auto Out-Of-Office-Reply using Sendmail

How do you configure an "Auto Out-Of-Office-Reply" using sendmail.

it's probably best to do it using procmail, which sendmail will automatically execute. an example from teh procmailex manpage describes:

Code:

              :0 Whc: vacation.lock

              # Perform a quick check to see if the mail was addressed to us

              * $^To:.*\<$\LOGNAME\>

              # Don't reply to daemons and mailinglists

              * !^FROM_DAEMON

              # Mail loops are evil

              * !^X-Loop: your@own.mail.address

              | formail -rD 8192 vacation.cache



                :0 ehc        # if the name was not in the cache

                | (formail -rI"Precedence: junk" \

                    -A"X-Loop: your@own.mail.address" ; \

                  echo "I received your mail,"; \

                  echo "but I won't be back until Monday."; \

                  echo "-- "; cat $HOME/.signature \

                  ) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t

that gives the general idea, albeit a touch OTT maybe.

Thank you very much acid_kewpie! I'll give this a try and get back to you with the results.

Thanks again