home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!usc!hela.iti.org!cs.widener.edu!dsinc!das13!dave
- From: dave@das13.snide.com (Dave Snyder)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Forwarding & Vacations
- Message-ID: <1993@das13.snide.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 15:20:19 GMT
- Organization: Snide Computer Services - Folcroft, PA
- Lines: 31
-
- In article <1993Jan7.212755.8073@itsmail1.hamilton.edu> fprice@hamilton.edu (Frank Price) writes:
- } Rumor has it that it is possible to have a message sent automatically in
- } response to incoming mail. For example: "I'm on vacation out of town
- } until the 23rd."
- } I couldn't find anything in either the man pages or the Elm manual.
- } Could someone tell me if this is possible and if so, how to do it?
- }
- That's not a rumor. You must have an MTA that supports mail-to-pipe.
- Examples of such an MTA are: sendmail, smail3, etc. Using sendmail for
- example, create a ".forward" file in your home directory that has this:
-
- \fprice, "|/usr/ucb/vacation -a price fprice"
-
- This will put mail in your main mail box and send a copy to the vacation
- program which does the automagic response thing. "vacation" is available
- at your favorite anonftp site if you don't already have it.
-
- } A related question: how to have mail automatically forwarded somewhere
- } else?
- }
- Create a ".forward" file in your home directory that has this:
-
- frank@my.home.machine
-
- Or whatever, you get the idea.
-
- DAS
- --
- David Snyder @ Snide Computer Services - Folcroft, PA Current Release
- is db4glgen-3.9
- UUCP: ..!uunet!das13!dave INTERNET: dave.snyder@snide.com
-