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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1987 Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
| 3 | .\" | |
| 4 | .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted | |
| 5 | .\" provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are | |
| 6 | .\" duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, | |
| 7 | .\" advertising materials, and other materials related to such | |
| 8 | .\" distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed | |
| 9 | .\" by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the | |
| 10 | .\" University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived | |
| 11 | .\" from this software without specific prior written permission. | |
| 12 | .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR | |
| 13 | .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED | |
| 14 | .\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. | |
| 15 | .\" | |
| 16 | .\" @(#)vacation.1 6.6 (Berkeley) 7/9/88 | |
| 17 | .\" | |
| 18 | .TH VACATION 1 "July 9, 1988" | |
| 19 | .UC 6 | |
| 20 | .SH NAME | |
| 21 | vacation \- return ``I am not here'' indication | |
| 22 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 23 | .B vacation | |
| 24 | .B -i | |
| 25 | .br | |
| 26 | .B vacation | |
| 27 | [ | |
| 28 | .B -a | |
| 29 | alias ] login | |
| 30 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 31 | \fIVacation\fP returns a message to the sender of a message telling | |
| 32 | them that you are currently not reading your mail. The intended use | |
| 33 | is in a \fI.forward\fP file. For example, your \fI.forward\fP file | |
| 34 | might have: | |
| 35 | .PP | |
| 36 | .ti +5 | |
| 37 | \eeric, "|/usr/ucb/vacation -a allman eric" | |
| 38 | .PP | |
| 39 | which would send messages to you (assuming your login name was eric) and | |
| 40 | reply to any messages for ``eric'' or ``allman''. | |
| 41 | .PP | |
| 42 | No message will be sent unless \fIlogin\fP or an \fIalias\fP supplied | |
| 43 | using the \fB-a\fP option is a substring of either the ``To:'' or ``Cc:'' | |
| 44 | headers of the mail. No messages from ``???-REQUEST'', ``Postmaster'', | |
| 45 | ``UUCP'', ``MAILER'', or ``MAILER-DAEMON'' will be replied to, nor is a | |
| 46 | notification sent if a ``Precedence: bulk'' or ``Precedence: junk'' line | |
| 47 | is included in the mail headers. Only one message per week will be sent | |
| 48 | to each unique sender. The people who have sent you messages are | |
| 49 | maintained as an \fIndbm\fP(3) database in the files \fI.vacation.pag\fP | |
| 50 | and \fI.vacation.dir\fP in your home directory. | |
| 51 | .PP | |
| 52 | The \fB-i\fP flag initializes the vacation database files. It should be | |
| 53 | used before you modify your \fI.forward\fP file. | |
| 54 | .PP | |
| 55 | \fIVacation\fP expects a file \fI.vacation.msg\fP, in your home directory, | |
| 56 | containing a message to be sent back to each sender. It should be an entire | |
| 57 | message (including headers). For example, it might say: | |
| 58 | .PP | |
| 59 | .in +5 | |
| 60 | .nf | |
| 61 | From: eric@ucbmonet.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman) | |
| 62 | Subject: I am on vacation | |
| 63 | Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: The Vacation program | |
| 64 | Precedence: bulk | |
| 65 | ||
| 66 | I am on vacation until July 22. If you have something urgent, | |
| 67 | please contact Joe Kalash <kalash@ucbingres.Berkeley.EDU>. | |
| 68 | --eric | |
| 69 | .fi | |
| 70 | .in -5 | |
| 71 | .PP | |
| 72 | \fIVacation\fP reads the first line from the standard input for | |
| 73 | a \s-1UNIX\s0-style ``From'' line to determine the sender. | |
| 74 | \fISendmail\fP(8) includes this ``From'' line automatically. | |
| 75 | .PP | |
| 76 | Fatal errors, such as calling \fIvacation\fP with incorrect arguments, | |
| 77 | or with non-existent \fIlogin\fPs, are logged in the system log file, | |
| 78 | using \fIsyslog\fP(8). | |
| 79 | .SH FILES | |
| 80 | .nf | |
| 81 | .ta \w'~/.vacation.msg 'u | |
| 82 | ~/.vacation.dir database file | |
| 83 | ~/.vacation.msg message to send | |
| 84 | ~/.vacation.pag database file | |
| 85 | .fi | |
| 86 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 87 | sendmail(8), syslog(8) |