Vacation

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