At 00.04 -0700 00-07-14, Austin Schutz wrote:
> > I sent mail to a mailing list. Not to you. Your autoreply software
> > should only reply to mail explicitly To: or Cc: you.
>
> This breaks for mail aliases. Perhaps, if you are root on
>a unix machine, you might want someone sending mail to that address
>to know you are away?
Not at all. You tell your favorite vacation software what aliases it
should reply to. If you have a unix system, see the manual page for
vacation. This after of course having the mail to root go to your
private mailbox.
Example:
# cat .forward
\paf,"| vacation -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] -u paf"
# uname -a
SunOS nix 5.5.1 Generic_103640-24 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20
# man vacation
Reformatting page. Wait... done
vacation(1) User Commands vacation(1)
NAME
vacation - reply to mail automatically
SYNOPSIS
vacation [ -I ]
vacation [ -j ] [ -a alias ] [ -tN ] username
:
:
:
-a alias Indicate that alias is one of the valid aliases
for the user running vacation, so that mail
addressed to that alias generates a reply.
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:
:
paf
