Auto Out-Of-Office-Reply using Sendmail

rjohnson · 03-27-2002, 03:12 PM

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

acid_kewpie · 03-27-2002, 03:23 PM

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.

rjohnson · 03-27-2002, 04:02 PM

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

Thanks again