Carlos Williams wrote: > I had a user ask me if the Postfix email server can auto respond w/ > "Out of Office" reply rather than do this on his client in case his > machine is rebooted and or shut off. I Google'd this first and found a > program called "Vacation" which appears to be somewhat compatible > however I am not sure since I have neither installed or used it as if > yet. I read the man page and it appears like a process getting up and > running so I thought I would ask here 1st if there is a more efficient > way in Postfix to get this up and running w/o having to install a > separate application / daemon to do what I am looking for. > > Thanks for any info! >
This depends highly on *your* configuration. Postfix itself is a mail transfer agent. It's job is to move mail from point to point. vacation is a nice utility if you deliver via local (or other MDA that checks .forward files) It's a bit more interesting if you use virtual(8) to deliver since that does not use .forward files. If we knew a bit more, we might give a more complete suggestion. Brian P.S.Writing your own needs knowledge as you can easily become an Outscatter source if you don't understand what this can do.
