Vacation time again

[hpicken]

It's time I put in some vacation
files on my sendmail server, at
least while I'm away.

I'm on several mailing lists and
I really don't want to send back
a whole heap to the lists.

Does anyone know of a way to
include an exempt file for the
vacation function?

Howard

 

[rouse01]

I use this procmailrc recipe. It creates a file in your /var/spool/mqueue with addressesthat have already been notified, so it won't send another notification to same sender. Note, the me is my email name. Hope this helps...

:0 Whc: me.lock
# Perform a quick check to see if the mail was addressed to us
* $^To:.*me
# Don't reply to daemons and mailinglists
* !^FROM_DAEMON
# Mail loops are evil
* !^X-Loop: me@domain.com
| formail -rD 8192 me.cache
:0 ehc # if the name was not in the cache
| (formail -rI"Precedence: junk" -A"X-Loop: me@domain.com " ; echo "I received your mail,"; echo "Thanks very much."; echo "-- "; cat $HOME/.signature ) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t

That's all. If you've never used procmail with your sendmail, email me & I'll try to help. There's a lot of good stuff on the internet.
Rouse01
stewartkc1@comcast.net