Hi Sean and Tina, thank you very much for your responses! I shall work using your material. Will let you know the outcome.
All the best, Alexandre On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM Tina Friedrich via Beowulf < beowulf@beowulf.org> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:* Beowulf <beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org> on behalf of Tina > > Friedrich via Beowulf <beowulf@beowulf.org> > > *Sent:* Friday 24 January 2025 14:44 > > *To:* beowulf@beowulf.org <beowulf@beowulf.org> > > *Subject:* Re: [Beowulf] Does anyone here use the email program "mutt"? > > [External Email] This email originated outside of Trinity College > > Dublin. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the > > sender and know the content is safe. > > > > 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 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin > Computing > >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf <https:// > > beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit https:// > > beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf <https://beowulf.org/cgi- > > bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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