VACATION(1) General Commands Manual VACATION(1)
NAME
vacation - return ``I am on vacation'' indication
SYNOPSIS
vacation -I
vacation user
DESCRIPTION
Vacation returns a message to the sender of a message telling that you are on vacation. The intended use is in a .forward file. For exam-
ple, your .forward file might have:
eric, "|vacation eric"
which would send messages to you (assuming your login name was eric) and send a message back to the sender.
Vacation expects a file .vacation.msg in your home directory containing a message to be sent back to each sender. It should be an entire
message (including headers). For example, it might say:
From: eric@ucbmonet.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)
Subject: I am on vacation
Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: the Vacation program
I am on vacation until July 22. If you have something urgent,
please contact Joe Kalash <kalash@ucbingres.Berkeley.EDU>.
--eric
This message will only be sent once a week to each unique sender. The people who have sent you messages are kept in the files .vaca-
tion.pag and .vacation.dir in your home directory. The -I option initializes these files, and should be executed before you modify your
.forward file.
If the -I flag is not specified, vacation reads the first line from the standard input for a UNIX-style ``From'' line to determine the
sender. If this is not present, a nasty diagnostic is produced. Sendmail(8) includes the ``From'' line automatically.
No message is sent if the initial ``From'' line includes the string ``-REQUEST@'' or if a ``Precedence: bulk'' or ``Precedence: junk'' line
is included in the header.
SEE ALSO
sendmail(8)
4.3 Berkeley Distribution June 16, 1985 VACATION(1)