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14 .TH VACATION 1 "$Date: 2002/06/21 21:28:06 $"
17 \- E-mail auto-responder
46 by default, to the sender informing them that you are currently not
48 The message is only sent to each sender once per reply interval (see
51 The intended use is in a
53 file. For example, your
57 \eeric, "|/usr/bin/vacation -a allman eric"
59 which would send messages to you (assuming your login name was eric) and
60 reply to any messages for
70 in the same manner as those received for the user's
74 Specify pathname of the sendmail configuration file.
75 This option is ignored if
78 This option defaults to the standard sendmail configuration file,
79 located at /etc/mail/sendmail.cf on most systems.
82 Send error/debug messages to stderr instead of syslog.
83 Otherwise, fatal errors, such as calling
85 with incorrect arguments, or with non-existent
87 are logged in the system log file, using
89 This should only be used on the command line, not in your
96 as name of the database instead of
99 .IR ~/.vacation.{dir,pag} .
102 starts with / it is relative to ~.
105 Initialize the vacation database files. It should be used
106 before you modify your
109 This should only be used on the command line, not in your
116 (for backwards compatibility).
117 This should only be used on the command line, not in your
122 List the content of the vacation database file including the address
123 and the associated time of the last auto-response to that address.
124 This should only be used on the command line, not in your
131 as name of the file containing the message to send instead of
132 .IR ~/.vacation.msg .
135 starts with / it is relative to ~.
138 Set the reply interval to
140 days. The default is one week.
141 An interval of ``0'' or
143 (actually, any non-numeric character) will never send more than
147 option should only be used when the vacation database is initialized
155 instead of the incoming message sender address on the
157 line as the recipient for the vacation message.
160 Ignored, available only for compatibility with Sun's
164 Do not attempt to lookup
166 in the password file.
167 The -f and -m options must be used to specify the database and message file
168 since there is no home directory for the default settings for these options.
171 Reads an exclusion list from stdin (one address per line).
172 Mails coming from an address
173 in this exclusion list won't get a reply by
175 It is possible to exclude complete domains by specifying
177 as element of the exclusion list.
178 This should only be used on the command line, not in your
183 Set the sender of the vacation message to
186 This probably violates the RFCs since vacation messages are
187 not required by a standards-track RFC to have a null reverse-path.
190 reads the first line from the standard input for a
193 line to determine the sender.
199 No message will be sent unless
205 option) is part of either the
220 will be replied to (where these strings are
221 case insensitive) nor is a notification sent if a
225 line is included in the mail headers.
226 The people who have sent you messages are maintained as a
233 .I .vacation.{dir,pag}
234 in your home directory.
239 in your home directory, containing a message to be sent back to each
240 sender. It should be an entire message (including headers). For
241 example, it might contain:
244 From: eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)
245 Subject: I am on vacation
246 Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: The Vacation program
249 I am on vacation until July 22. If you have something urgent,
250 please contact Keith Bostic <bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU>.
256 default database file for db(3)
258 ~/.vacation.{dir,pag}
259 default database file for dbm(3)
262 default message to send
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