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NAME
     vacation - return ``I am not here'' indication

SYNOPSIS
     vacation -i
     vacation [ -a alias ] login

DESCRIPTION
     vacation returns a message to the sender of a message tel-
     ling them that you are currently not reading your mail.  The
     intended use is in a .forward file.  For example, your .for-
     ward file might have:

          \eric, "|/usr/ucb/vacation -a allman eric"

     which would send messages to you (assuming your login name
     was eric) and reply to any messages for ``eric'' or ``all-
     man''.

     No message will be sent unless login or an alias supplied
     using the -a option is a substring of either the ``To:'' or
     ``Cc:''  headers of the mail.  No messages from ``???-
     REQUEST'', ``Postmaster'', ``UUCP'', ``MAILER'', or
     ``MAILER-DAEMON'' will be replied to, nor is a notification
     sent if a ``Precedence: bulk'' or ``Precedence: junk'' line
     is included in the mail headers.  Only one message per week
     will be sent to each unique sender.  The people who have
     sent you messages are maintained as an ndbm(3) database in
     the files .vacation.pag and .vacation.dir in your home
     directory.

     The -i flag initializes the vacation database files.  It
     should be used before you modify your .forward file.

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

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

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

     vacation reads the first line from the standard input for a
     UNIX-style ``From'' line to determine the sender.
     sendmail(1M) includes this ``From'' line automatically.




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     Fatal errors, such as calling vacation with incorrect argu-
     ments, or with non-existent logins, are logged in the system
     log file, using syslog(3).

FILES
     ~/.vacation.dir          database file
     ~/.vacation.msg          message to send
     ~/.vacation.pag          database file

SEE ALSO
     sendmail(1M) in the System Administrator's Reference Manual.
     syslog(3) in the Programmer's Reference Manual.











































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