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.\" @(#)vacation.1 6.9 (Berkeley) 7/30/91
.Nd return ``I am not here'' indication
returns a message to the sender of a message telling them that you
are currently not reading your mail. The intended use is in a
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\eeric, "|/usr/bin/vacation -a allman eric"
which would send messages to you (assuming your login name was eric) and
reply to any messages for
in the same manner as those received for the user's
Initialize the vacation database files. It should be used
Set the reply interval to
days. The default is one week. An interval of
a reply is sent to each message, and an interval of
(actually, any non-numeric character) will never send more than
one reply. It should be noted that intervals of
dangerous, as it allows mailers to get into
No message will be sent unless
option) is part of either the
will be replied to (where these strings are
case insensitive) nor is a notification sent if a
line is included in the mail headers.
The people who have sent you messages are maintained as an
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 contain:
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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>.
reads the first line from the standard input for a
line to determine the sender.
Fatal errors, such as calling
with incorrect arguments, or with non-existent
are logged in the system log file, using
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