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| - | Using vacation to have auto-responded messages sent when you recieve email is still available on the new PCN systems, as it was previously on london. Some differences are important to note: | ||
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| - | **1.** Put your message in a file called .vacation.msg. Users that are used to the vacation program on london might notice a couple of differences, most notably, the version of vacation installed does not expand variables in the vacation.msg file, like $SUBJECT. This file should be in the following format: | ||
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| - | **From:** username (via the vacation program)\\ | ||
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| - | Subject:** away from my mail | ||
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| - | //TEXT OF MESSAGE HERE// | ||
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| - | **The From:** and Subject lines are important!\\ | ||
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| - | **2.** Initialize your vacation database by typing at the shell prompt, vacation -i .\\ | ||
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| - | **3.** Create a file called .forward in your home directory. It should contain something like the following line: | ||
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| - | <codebash>\username, "|/usr/bin/vacation username"</code> | ||
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| - | This will cause your mail to be delivered to your mailbox as usual, (\username), and the vacation program to be run for that message. | ||
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| - | Be sure to mv your .forward away when you return, or people will continue to get vacation messages when they send you email. | ||