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==Vacation Message==
yum --enablerepo=smecontribs install smeserver-vacation
Setup an automatic 'out of office' email reply.

===Overview===
Admin can enable the vacation message for users.


===Enable===

If you install [[:UserManager]] and delegate the user-vacation panel to users they can prepare and enable their vacation message themselves.


===Configuration===
*Only one reply is sent to each sender until the Repeat interval is reached

Change the interval between repeat replies to the same<br>
sender. The default is 1 week. A trailing s, m, h, d, or w<br>
scales the number N to seconds, minutes, hours, days or<br>
weeks respectively. For example, to set the interval value<br>
to 3 days you would specify -t3d. There should be no spaces<br>
between the -t and N.

configure, then apply to all users,
config setprop qmail VacationDelay -t3d
or
config delprop qmail VacationDelay

/etc/e-smith/events/actions/qmail-update-user

* Addresses to be replied to:
All mail for the user including pseudonyms and groups will send the reply message.


===User Shell Access===
If a user has shell access they can use advanced vacation functions, man vacation

====Vacation responses====
The vacation handling routine stores whom has been send a vacation
message, it's possible for the user to generate a list of those addresses
if the user has shell access.

# /usr/local/bin/vacation -s jane

Welcome back!
While you were away, vacation mail was sent to the following addresses:

garry@site.com
Wed Sep 17 18:40:45 2008
wally@abc.net.au
Wed Sep 17 18:23:56 2008

====No Replies====
Apart from the default no replies Vacation will also not generate a reply
if the sender matches any of the mail addresses listed in the
optional files ~/.vacation.aliases or ~/.vacation.noreply.

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