Out of office/vacation tools?

[Les Mikesell]

On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 11:23, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> > What are you using for "Out of Office" e-mail tools?  I am using
> > Sendmail, Dovecot and procmail.  I have used vacation in the past and
> > liked it just fine.  Any reason not to install it on my FC installation?
> > I know to make sure to add it *after* my procmail rules for lists and
> > the like so only people who are e-mailing me specifically get the OOO
> > reply.

> The vacation tool just works, yes. If you would run Cyrus-IMAPd instead
> of dovecot (I do not urge you :) - just inform you) Sieve could do the
> out-of-office job.

Vacation should avoid responding to mail lists on its own,
regardless of what else you do in procmail - at least for
lists that follow the convention of using a
Precedence: bulk
(or junk) header.

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  Les Mikesell
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