[KLUG Members] Mail Feature

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Dirk Bartley asks:
>We currently use a commercial mail application.  One of the features we would
>like to keep would be to be able to have an auto-response feature for when
>people are on vacation.  This is currently something the users request of the
>admin.  Is there a method to do this with sendmail? (or some other software in
>linux?)

It is very easy to do this on a user-by-user basis with procmail. Red Hat (and
related distributions, and probably others) use procmail as part of local 
delivery for e-mail, so it (sendmail) already has procmail configured. There
are examples of Procmail scripts on the man pages for procmail, or in my 
presentation on procmail on the KLUG website "Past Presentations" page. If
you REALLY want, I can be induced into writing a procmail recipe or two for
this purpose, but you'll probably have more fun figuring it out. :)

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