Re: [courier-users] User Transparent replacment for /usr/bin/vacation

David Ehle wrote:
> I have vacaton/auto responses with maildrop/maildropex in the past but I'm
> getting an increasing number of requests from users for the ability to set
> up easy vacation messages.
>
> Has anyone developed a drop in replacement for the standard "vacation"
> program that works with courier/courier-imap ?
>
> Or can you make a suggestion on how to set one up?
>
> I'm really looking for one that end users without any scripting or courier
> knowledge can customize and turn on/off. They will have shell access. A
> squirrelmail pluggin would be a great alternative to a command line
> version.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> P.S. Please CC me directly on any responses as I take the mailing list in
> digest format.

I believe there are a couple of maildrop compatible vacation plugins
available. Go to squirrelmail's website, http://www.squirrelmail.org
click the plugins link, and browse through there. They've been having
some trouble recently with their mysql backend so you may have to try
back at off peak times. You could also customize your global maildrop
script to check for a default vacation file. Something like, if
$HOME/vacation.txt exists, use it as the autoresponse. Thus, all the
users have to do is create a text file in their home directory named
vacation.txt when they're away with whatever text they want. You'd of
course want to check for duplicates, log to a database etc as shown in
maildropex.

Jay
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Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
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