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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)vacation.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/28/95 .\" .Dd April 28, 1995 .Dt VACATION 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm vacation .Nd return ``I am not here'' indication .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm vacation .Fl i .Op Fl r Ar interval .Nm vacation .Op Fl a Ar alias .Ar login .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm 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 .Pa .forward file. For example, your .Pa .forward file might have: .Bd -literal -offset indent \eeric, "|/usr/bin/vacation -a allman eric" .Ed which would send messages to you (assuming your login name was eric) and reply to any messages for .Dq eric or .Dq allman . .Pp Available options: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Fl a Ar alias Handle messages for .Ar alias in the same manner as those received for the user's login name. .It Fl i Initialize the vacation database files. It should be used before you modify your .Pa .forward file. .It Fl r Set the reply interval to .Ar interval days. The default is one week. An interval of .Dq 0 means that a reply is sent to each message, and an interval of .Dq Li infinite (actually, any non-numeric character) will never send more than one reply. It should be noted that intervals of .Dq Li \&0 are quite dangerous, as it allows mailers to get into .Dq I am on vacation loops. .El .Pp No message will be sent unless .Ar login (or an .Ar alias supplied using the .Fl a option) is part of either the .Dq To: or .Dq Cc: headers of the mail. No messages from .Dq ???-REQUEST , .Dq Postmaster , .Dq Tn UUCP , .Dq MAILER , or .Dq MAILER-DAEMON will be replied to (where these strings are case insensitive) nor is a notification sent if a .Dq Precedence: bulk , .Dq Precedence: list , or .Dq Precedence: junk line is included in the mail headers. The people who have sent you messages are maintained as a .Xr db 3 database in the file .Pa .vacation.db in your home directory. .Pp .Nm vacation expects a file .Pa .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: .Pp .Bd -unfilled -offset indent -compact 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 . --eric .Ed .Pp Any occurrence of the string .Li $SUBJECT in .Pa .vacation.msg will be replaced by the subject of the message that triggered the .Nm vacation program. .Pp .Nm vacation reads the incoming message from standard input, checking the message headers for either the .Ux .Dq From line or a .Dq Return-Path header to determine the sender. If both are present the sender from the .Dq Return-Path header is used. .Pp Fatal errors, such as calling .Nm vacation with incorrect arguments, or with non-existent .Ar login Ns Ar s , are logged in the system log file, using .Xr syslog 3 . .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width "vacation.dirxxx" -compact .It Pa ~/.vacation.db database file .It Pa ~/.vacation.msg message to send .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr syslog 3 , .Xr sendmail 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm vacation command appeared in .Bx 4.3 .