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VACATION(1)             NetBSD General Commands Manual             VACATION(1)


NAME
vacation - return ``I am not here'' indication
SYNOPSIS
vacation -i [-r interval] [-t A|D] vacation [-a alias] [-t A|D] login
DESCRIPTION
vacation 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 .forward file. For example, your .forward file might have: \eric, "|/usr/bin/vacation -a allman eric" which would send messages to you (assuming your login name was eric) and reply to any messages for ``eric'' or ``allman''. Available options: -a alias Handle messages for alias in the same manner as those received for the user's login name. -i Initialize the vacation database files. It should be used before you modify your .forward file. -r Set the reply interval to interval days. The default is one week. An interval of ``0'' means that a reply is sent to each message, and an interval of ``infinite'' (actually, any non- numeric character) will never send more than one reply. It should be noted that intervals of ``0'' are quite dangerous, as it allows mailers to get into ``I am on vacation'' loops. -t A|D Make vacation look in addition to Apparently-To: (A) or Deliv- ered-To: (D) headers to determine the To: field. No message will be sent unless login (or an alias supplied using the -a option) is part of either the ``To:'' or ``Cc:'' headers of the mail. No messages from ``???-REQUEST'', ``Postmaster'', ``UUCP'', ``MAILER'', or ``MAILER-DAEMON'' will be replied to (where these strings are case insen- sitive) nor is a notification sent if a ``Precedence: bulk'' ``Precedence: list'' or ``Precedence: junk'' line is included in the mail headers. The people who have sent you messages are maintained as a db(3) database in the file .vacation.db in your home directory. 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 contain: From: eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman) Subject: I am on vacation Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: The Vacation program Precedence: bulk I am on vacation until July 22. If you have something urgent, please contact Keith Bostic <bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU>. --eric vacation reads the first line from the standard input for a UNIX ``From'' line to determine the sender. sendmail(8) includes this ``From'' line automatically. Fatal errors, such as calling vacation with incorrect arguments, or with non-existent logins, are logged in the system log file, using syslog(3).
FILES
~/.vacation.db database file ~/.vacation.msg message to send
SEE ALSO
syslog(3), sendmail(8)
HISTORY
The vacation command appeared in 4.3BSD.
BUGS
Adding -t A or -t D should only be done for misconfigured or non-compli- ant MTA's. Doing so may auto-respond to messages that were not supposed to be replied to. NetBSD 2.0 April 19, 2003 NetBSD 2.0

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