Barney Desmond a écrit : > 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. > > My first response would be to ask whether they really need it. :) > This bitterness comes from dealing with too many annoyingly-enterprise-y > customers who are hell bent on notifying people that they'll be away > from their desk for more than 45 seconds, lest they be "left out of the > loop"... > > 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. > > This isn't something you really "daemonise", postfix just delivers mail. > > You can use vacation and formail to do this if you use local delivery. > We use procmail for local delivery, so something like this in the user's > .procmailrc works for us. It's quite manual though, not usually > something users do for themselves. Good for a one-off, but not ongoing. > > Delete any ~/.vacation.cache files before starting, and create a > ~/.autoreply file for the user. > > > SHELL=/bin/bash
Did you ever heard of "portability"? do you know that not every system is linux? > NAME="Yukari Yakumo" > EMAIL="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > :0 Whc: .vacation.lock > * !^FROM_DAEMON > * !^X-Loop: infobot_reply > | formail -rD 8192 .vacation.cache > > :0 ehc > | (formail -rt -I"From: $NAME <$EMAIL>"\ > -A"Precedence: junk (autoreply)"\ > -A"X-Loop: infobot_reply" ; \ > cat $HOME/.autoreply\ > ) | $SENDMAIL -t -f "$EMAIL" > > this is borked. you reply to mailing-lists, bulk, junk, ... etc. stop this now. use the "old" vacation program instead of borked procmail sorcerer recipes.
