Hello,
I just remembered something - it's been a while since my work email
wasn't handled by something MS Exchange like - there's a 'vacation' tool
for Linux/Unix systems that can help with this. See e.g.
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/linux-in-a/0596004826/re470.html
It still needs the sort of transport agent that uses e.g. a .forward
file, but (if I remember correctly) makes setting the vacation
forwarding up easier (and handles things like only sending something
like one repsonse per week per sender etc).
Tina
On 24/01/2025 14:48, Sean Mc Grath via Beowulf wrote:
Hi Alexandre,
Get well soon to your friend.
As Tina said, mutt doesn't do this. Here is a procmail example I have
used in the past but not for a long time. Sorry if it is no help.
Setting up an out of office, (vacation/ auto-reply).
Edit your ~/.procmailrc file, create it first if needed below, update
the "$logn...@fqdn.tldr" entrie(s).
Create the ~/.vacation.msg as your automatic response to send to users.
This should be a plaintext file containing the text of the response you
want to send to recipients.
taken from http://system.cs.technion.ac.il/Mail_Guides/
Configuring%20Vacation%20Mail%20With%20Procmail.htm [DEAD LINK]
### Vaction response,
E.g. ~/.procmailrc contentcs
:0 Whc: vacation.lock
* $^To:.*\<$\LOGNAME\>
* !^FROM_DAEMON
* !^X-Loop: root@*
## `--> to not reply to root or ops mails, can have multiple `* !^X-
Loop:` entries
# store sender's address in vacation.cache if not there already.
| /usr/bin/formail -rD 8192 $HOME/.vacation.cache
:0 ehc
| (/usr/bin/formail -rA"Precedence: junk" -A"x-loop:
$logn...@fqdn.tldr" ; cat $HOME/.vacation.msg ) | /usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t
To turn off the vacation response comment out or remove the above from
your procmail file.
Regards
Sean
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Hi Alexandre,
I do use mutt, but not exclusively/heavily, so I might be wrong, but...
I don't think that's a thing mutt can do. Auto-replies are usually set
on the server/MTA (i.e. procmail, sedmail, MS Exchange...), not in a
mail client? So if it's the sort of mail system that heeds those, that's
done in a .forward file or similar.
(If we're dealing with Microsoft 365 - it's in your settings.)
Tina
On 24/01/2025 14:34, Alexandre Ferreira Ramos via Beowulf wrote:
Hi All,
I have a friend who is ill and we need to configure his email
for automatically replying to messages. He uses mutt but we do not know
how to proceed to set this functionality. I am writing here with the
hope that someone is knowledgeable about mutt email system.
All the best,
Alexandre
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