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        !            18: .\"     @(#)vacation.1 6.8 (Berkeley) 6/24/90
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        !            20: .TH VACATION 1 "February 7, 1989"
        !            21: .UC 6
        !            22: .SH NAME
        !            23: vacation \- return ``I am not here'' indication
        !            24: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            25: .B vacation
        !            26: .B -i
        !            27: [
        !            28: .B -r
        !            29: interval ]
        !            30: .br
        !            31: .B vacation
        !            32: [
        !            33: .B -a
        !            34: alias ] login
        !            35: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            36: .I Vacation
        !            37: returns a message to the sender of a message telling them that you
        !            38: are currently not reading your mail.  The intended use is in a
        !            39: .I .forward
        !            40: file.  For example, your
        !            41: .I .forward
        !            42: file might have:
        !            43: .PP
        !            44: .ti +5
        !            45: \eeric, "|/usr/bin/vacation -a allman eric"
        !            46: .PP
        !            47: which would send messages to you (assuming your login name was eric) and
        !            48: reply to any messages for ``eric'' or ``allman''.
        !            49: .PP
        !            50: No message will be sent unless
        !            51: .I login
        !            52: (or an
        !            53: .I alias
        !            54: supplied using the
        !            55: .B -a
        !            56: option) is part of either the ``To:'' or ``Cc:'' headers of the mail.
        !            57: No messages from ``???-REQUEST'', ``Postmaster'', ``UUCP'', ``MAILER'',
        !            58: or ``MAILER-DAEMON'' will be replied to (where these strings are
        !            59: case insensitive) nor is a notification sent if a ``Precedence: bulk''
        !            60: or ``Precedence: junk'' line is included in the mail headers.
        !            61: The people who have sent you messages are maintained as an
        !            62: .IR ndbm (3)
        !            63: database in the files
        !            64: .I .vacation.pag
        !            65: and
        !            66: .I .vacation.dir
        !            67: in your home directory.
        !            68: .PP
        !            69: The
        !            70: .B -i
        !            71: flag initializes the vacation database files.  It should be used
        !            72: before you modify your
        !            73: .I .forward
        !            74: file.
        !            75: .PP
        !            76: The
        !            77: .B -r
        !            78: flag sets the reply interval to
        !            79: .I interval
        !            80: days.  The default is one week.  An interval of ``0'' means that
        !            81: a reply is sent to each message, and an interval of ``infinite''
        !            82: (actually, any non-numeric character) will never send more than
        !            83: one reply.  It should be noted that intervals of ``0'' are quite
        !            84: dangerous, as it allows mailers to get into ``I am on vacation''
        !            85: loops.
        !            86: .PP
        !            87: .I Vacation
        !            88: expects a file
        !            89: .IR .vacation.msg ,
        !            90: in your home directory, containing a message to be sent back to each
        !            91: sender.  It should be an entire message (including headers).  For
        !            92: example, it might contain:
        !            93: .PP
        !            94: .in +5
        !            95: .nf
        !            96: From: [email protected] (Eric Allman)
        !            97: Subject: I am on vacation
        !            98: Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: The Vacation program
        !            99: Precedence: bulk
        !           100: 
        !           101: I am on vacation until July 22.  If you have something urgent,
        !           102: please contact Joe Kalash <[email protected]>.
        !           103:        --eric
        !           104: .fi
        !           105: .in -5
        !           106: .PP
        !           107: .I Vacation
        !           108: reads the first line from the standard input for a \s-1UNIX\s0-style
        !           109: ``From'' line to determine the sender.
        !           110: .IR Sendmail (8)
        !           111: includes this ``From'' line automatically.
        !           112: .PP
        !           113: Fatal errors, such as calling
        !           114: .I vacation
        !           115: with incorrect arguments, or with non-existent
        !           116: .IR login s,
        !           117: are logged in the system log file, using
        !           118: .IR syslog (8).
        !           119: .SH FILES
        !           120: .nf
        !           121: .ta \w'~/.vacation.msg    'u
        !           122: ~/.vacation.dir        database file
        !           123: ~/.vacation.msg        message to send
        !           124: ~/.vacation.pag        database file
        !           125: .fi
        !           126: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !           127: sendmail(8), syslog(8)

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