Vacation - Setting an Email Autoreply

1. Open a Unix Session



2. Once you are logged in, type following on your shell prompt:
   vacation -I (fig 01)
   
   
   
   Fig 01
   
   
3. That will create two files: .vacation.dir and .vacation.pag, to check whether those two files have been created or not, type in ls .vacation.* (fig 02) on your shell prompt. You shoud get the following result:




Fig 02


4. Now using a text editor that you like(pico, vi, notepad, etc...) create .vacation.msg file, type in the following:


Subject: I am on vacation
I am on vacation until somedate. Your mail will be read when I return.
Thanks



5. Save this file in your home directory



6. Using either similar or different text editor create a .forward file, type in the following( replace mlc7338 with your login name):


\mlc7338, "| /usr/bin/vacation mlc7338"


7. To disable the vacation forwarding, simply delete or rename your .forward file

Note:
Your emails will be stored in your inbox as usual.

No message is sent if the To: or the Cc: line does not list the user to whom the original message was sent or one of a number of aliases for them, if the initial From line includes the string -REQUEST@, or if a Precedence: bulk or Precedence: junk line is included in the header.Vacation will also not respond to mail from either postmaster or MailerDaemon.

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