# 2.11BSD#431 - /usr/man/cat1/vacation.0

    VACATION(1)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual	      VACATION(1)

    NAME
         vacation - return ``I am on vacation'' indication

    SYNOPSIS
         vacation -I
         vacation user

    DESCRIPTION
         Vacation returns a message to the sender of a message tel-
         ling that you are on vacation.  The intended use is in a
         .forward file.  For example, your .forward file might have:

    	  \eric, "|vacation eric"

         which would send messages to you (assuming your login name
         was eric) and send a message back to the sender.

         Vacation expects a file .vacation.msg in your home directory
         containing a message to be sent back to each sender.  It
         should be an entire message (including headers).  For exam-
         ple, it might say:

    	  From: eric@ucbmonet.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)
    	  Subject: I am on vacation
    	  Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: the Vacation program

    	  I am on vacation until July 22.  If you have something urgent,
    	  please contact Joe Kalash <kalash@ucbingres.Berkeley.EDU>.
    	       --eric

         This message will only be sent once a week to each unique
         sender.  The people who have sent you messages are kept in
         the files .vacation.pag and .vacation.dir in your home
         directory.  The -I option initializes these files, and
         should be executed before you modify your .forward file.

         If the -I flag is not specified, vacation reads the first
         line from the standard input for a UNIX-style ``From'' line
         to determine the sender.  If this is not present, a nasty
         diagnostic is produced.  Sendmail(8) includes the ``From''
         line automatically.

         No message is sent if the initial ``From'' line includes the
         string ``-REQUEST@'' or if a ``Precedence: bulk'' or ``Pre-
         cedence: junk'' line is included in the header.

    SEE ALSO
         sendmail(8)

    Printed 11/26/99	  June 16, 1985                         1

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