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                     18: .TH VACATION 1 "July 9, 1988"
                     19: .UC 6
                     20: .SH NAME
                     21: vacation \- return ``I am not here'' indication
                     22: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     23: .B vacation
                     24: .B -i
                     25: .br
                     26: .B vacation
                     27: [
                     28: .B -a
                     29: alias ] login
                     30: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     31: \fIVacation\fP returns a message to the sender of a message telling
                     32: them that you are currently not reading your mail.  The intended use
                     33: is in a \fI.forward\fP file.  For example, your \fI.forward\fP file
                     34: might have:
                     35: .PP
                     36: .ti +5
                     37: \eeric, "|/usr/ucb/vacation -a allman eric"
                     38: .PP
                     39: which would send messages to you (assuming your login name was eric) and
                     40: reply to any messages for ``eric'' or ``allman''.
                     41: .PP
                     42: No message will be sent unless \fIlogin\fP or an \fIalias\fP supplied
                     43: using the \fB-a\fP option is a substring of either the ``To:'' or ``Cc:''
                     44: headers of the mail.  No messages from ``???-REQUEST'', ``Postmaster'',
                     45: ``UUCP'', ``MAILER'', or ``MAILER-DAEMON'' will be replied to, nor is a
                     46: notification sent if a ``Precedence: bulk'' or ``Precedence: junk'' line
                     47: is included in the mail headers.  Only one message per week will be sent
                     48: to each unique sender.  The people who have sent you messages are
                     49: maintained as an \fIndbm\fP(3) database in the files \fI.vacation.pag\fP
                     50: and \fI.vacation.dir\fP in your home directory.
                     51: .PP
                     52: The \fB-i\fP flag initializes the vacation database files.  It should be
                     53: used before you modify your \fI.forward\fP file.
                     54: .PP
                     55: \fIVacation\fP expects a file \fI.vacation.msg\fP, in your home directory,
                     56: containing a message to be sent back to each sender.  It should be an entire
                     57: message (including headers).  For example, it might say:
                     58: .PP
                     59: .in +5
                     60: .nf
                     61: From: [email protected] (Eric Allman)
                     62: Subject: I am on vacation
                     63: Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: The Vacation program
                     64: Precedence: bulk
                     65: 
                     66: I am on vacation until July 22.  If you have something urgent,
                     67: please contact Joe Kalash <[email protected]>.
                     68:        --eric
                     69: .fi
                     70: .in -5
                     71: .PP
                     72: \fIVacation\fP reads the first line from the standard input for
                     73: a \s-1UNIX\s0-style ``From'' line to determine the sender.
                     74: \fISendmail\fP(8) includes this ``From'' line automatically.
                     75: .PP
                     76: Fatal errors, such as calling \fIvacation\fP with incorrect arguments,
                     77: or with non-existent \fIlogin\fPs, are logged in the system log file,
                     78: using \fIsyslog\fP(8).
                     79: .SH FILES
                     80: .nf
                     81: .ta \w'~/.vacation.msg    'u
                     82: ~/.vacation.dir        database file
                     83: ~/.vacation.msg        message to send
                     84: ~/.vacation.pag        database file
                     85: .fi
                     86: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     87: sendmail(8), syslog(8)

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