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User Commands vacation(1)
NAME
vacation - reply to mail automatically
SYNOPSIS
vacation [-I]
vacation [-a alias] [-e filter_file] [-f database_file] [-j]
[-m message_file] [-s sender] [-tN] username
DESCRIPTION
The vacation utility automatically replies to incoming mail.
Installation
The installation consists of an interactive program which
sets up vacation's basic configuration.
To install vacation, type it with no arguments on the com-
mand line. The program creates a .vacation.msg file, which
contains the message that is automatically sent to all
senders when vacation is enabled, and starts an editor for
you to modify the message. (See USAGE section.) Which editor
is invoked is determined by the VISUAL or EDITOR environment
variable, or vi(1) if neither of those environment variables
are set.
A .forward file is also created if one does not exist in
your home directory. Once created, the .forward file will
contain a line of the form:
One copy of an incoming message is sent to the username and
another copy is piped into vacation:
\username, "|/usr/bin/vacation username"
If a .forward file is present in your home directory, it
will ask whether you want to remove it, which disables vaca-
tion and ends the installation.
The program automatically creates .vacation.pag and
.vacation.dir, which contain a list of senders when vacation
is enabled.
Activation and Deactivation
The presence of the .forward file determines whether or not
vacation is disabled or enabled. To disable vacation, remove
the .forward file, or move it to a new name.
Initialization
The -I option clears the vacation log files, .vacation.pag
and .vacation.dir, erasing the list of senders from a previ-
ous vacation session. (See OPTIONS section.)
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Additional Configuration
vacation provides configuration options that are not part of
the installation, these being -a, -e, -f, -j, -m, -s, and
-t. (See OPTIONS section.)
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-I Initializes the .vacation.pag and .vacation.dir
files and enables vacation. If the -I flag is not
specified, and a user argument is given, vacation
reads the first line from the standard input (for a
From: line, no colon). If absent, it produces an
error message.
Options -a, -e, -f, -j, -m, -s, and -t are configuration
options to be used in conjunction with vacation in the .for-
ward file, not on the command line. For example,
\username, "|/usr/bin/vacation -t1m username"
repeats replies to the sender every minute.
-a alias Indicates that alias is one of the
valid aliases for the user running
vacation, so that mail addressed to
that alias generates a reply.
-e filter_file Uses filter_file instead of
.vacation.filter as the source of
the domain and email address
filters.
-f database_file Uses database_file instead of .vaca-
tion as the base name for the data-
base file.
-j Does not check whether the recipient
appears in the To: or the Cc: line.
Warning: use of this option can
result in vacation replies being
sent to mailing lists and other
inappropriate places; its use is
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therefore strongly discouraged.
-m message_file Uses ~/message_file as the message
to send for the reply instead of
~/.vacation.msg. message_file is a
relative path to the desired vaca-
tion message file. To prevent
directory/file "not found" errors,
message_file should be on the same
disk partition as ~/.forward.
-s sender Replies to sender instead of the
value read from the UNIX From line
of the incoming message.
-tN Changes the interval between repeat
replies to the same sender. The
default is 1 week. A trailing s, m,
h, d, or w scales N to seconds,
minutes, hours, days, or weeks,
respectively.
USAGE
.vacation.msg should include a header with at least a Sub-
ject: line (it should not include a To: line). For example:
Subject: I am on vacation
I am on vacation until July 22. If you have something urgent,
please contact Joe Jones (jones@fB0).
--John
If the string $SUBJECT appears in the .vacation.msg file, it
is replaced with the subject of the original message when
the reply is sent. Thus, a .vacation.msg file such as
Subject: I am on vacation
I am on vacation until July 22.
Your mail regarding "$SUBJECT" will be read when I return.
If you have something urgent, please contact
Joe Jones (jones@fB0).
--John
will include the subject of the message in the reply.
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No message is sent if the To: or the Cc: line does not list
the user to whom the original message was sent or one of a
number of aliases for them, if the initial From line
includes the string -REQUEST@, or if a Precedence: bulk or
Precedence: junk line is included in the header.
vacation will also not respond to mail from either postmas-
ter or Mailer-Daemon.
In addition to the above criteria, if a .vacation.filter
file exists, it is used to constrain further the set of
addresses to which a reply is sent. Each line in that file
should be either a domain name or an email address. If the
incoming sender address matches one of the lines in the
file, a reply is sent. If no lines match, no reply is sent.
For lines containing an email address, the match must be
exact, except for case, which is ignored. For lines contain-
ing a domain name, the sender address must be either
something@domain-name or something@something.domain-name. A
sample filter file might look like the following:
sun.com
mydomain.com
onefriend@hisisp.com
anotherfriend@herisp.com
Note: Blank lines and lines starting with "#" are ignored.
FILES
~/.forward
~/.vacation.filter
~/.vacation.msg
A list of senders is kept in the dbm format files
.vacation.pag and .vacation.dir in your home directory.
These files are dbm files and cannot be viewed directly with
text editors.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:
____________________________________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Availability | SUNWsndmu |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
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SEE ALSO
vi(1), sendmail(1M), dbm(3UCB), getusershell(3C),
aliases(4), shells(4), attributes(5)
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