VACATION(1) | General Commands Manual | VACATION(1) |
vacation
— return
“I am not here” indication
vacation |
-i [-r
interval] |
vacation |
-l |
vacation |
-x |
vacation |
[-a alias]
[-c ccaddr]
[-d ] [-f
db] [-m
msg] [-j ]
[-z ] login |
vacation
returns a message to the sender
of a message telling them that you are currently not reading your mail. The
intended use is in a .forward file. For example,
your .forward file might have:
\eric, "|/usr/bin/vacation -a allman eric"
which would send messages to you (assuming your login name was eric) and reply to any messages for “eric” or “allman”.
Available options:
-a
alias-a
alias multiple times is possible.-c
ccaddr-d
-f
db-m
msg-j
-z
-i
-r
infinite
” (actually, any
non-numeric character) will never send more than one reply. It should be
noted that intervals of “0
” are
quite dangerous, as it allows mailers to get into “I am on
vacation” loops.-x
-l
When started without arguments, vacation
will guide the user through the configuration process.
No message will be sent unless login (or an
alias supplied using the -a
option) is part of either the “To:” or “Cc:”
headers of the mail. No messages from “???-REQUEST”,
“Postmaster”, “UUCP”, “MAILER”, or
“MAILER-DAEMON” will be replied to (where these strings are
case insensitive) nor is a notification sent if a “Precedence:
bulk”, “Precedence: list”, “Precedence:
junk”, “X-Spam-Flag: yes” or “Auto-submitted:
(something other than no)” line is included in the mail headers. The
people who have sent you messages are maintained as a
db(3) database in the file
.vacation.db in your home directory.
vacation
expects a file
.vacation.msg, in your home directory, containing a
message to be sent back to each sender. It should be an entire message
(including headers). For example, it might contain:
From: eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman) Subject: I am on vacation Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: The Vacation program Precedence: bulk I am on vacation until July 22. If you have something urgent, please contact Keith Bostic <bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU>. --eric
Any occurrence of the string $SUBJECT
in
.vacation.msg will be replaced by the subject of the
message that triggered the vacation
program.
vacation
reads the incoming message from
standard input, checking the message headers for either the
UNIX “From” line or a
“Return-Path” header to determine the sender. If both are
present the sender from the “Return-Path” header is used.
Sendmail(8) includes this “From” line
automatically.
Fatal errors, such as calling vacation
with incorrect arguments, or with non-existent
logins, are logged on the
standard error output and in the system log file, using
syslog(3).
The vacation
utility exits 0 on success,
and >0 if an error occurs.
The vacation
command appeared in
4.3BSD.
vacation
was developed by Eric Allman and
the University of California, Berkeley in 1983.
This version is maintained by Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> and contains
code taken from the three free BSD and some patches applied to a linux
port.
June 15, 2003 | Linux |