VACATION(1)

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NAME
vacation - return ``I am on vacation'' indication

SYNOPSIS
vacation -I
vacation user

DESCRIPTION
Vacation returns a message to the sender of a message telling that you are on vacation. The intended use is in a .forward file. For example, your .forward file might have:

\eric, "|/usr/ucb/vacation eric"

which would send messages to you (assuming your login name was eric) and send a message back to the sender.

Vacation expects a file .vacation.msg in your home directory containing a message to be sent back to each sender. This file should include a header. For example, it might say:

From: Eric Allman <eric>
Subject: I am on vacation
Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: the Vacation program
I am on vacation until July 22.  If you have something urgent,
please contact Joe Kalash <kalash@ucbingres>.
	--eric

This message will only be sent once a week to each unique sender. The people who have sent you messages are kept in the files .vacation.pag and .vacation.dir in your home directory. The -I option initializes these files, and should be executed before you modify your .forward file.

If the -I flag is not specified, vacation reads the first line from the standard input for a UNIX-style ``From'' line to determine the sender. If this is not present, a nasty diagnostic is produced. Sendmail(8) includes this automatically.

SEE ALSO
sendmail(8)