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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">To reiterate, anything Sean and Tina have said about procmail, vacation, or other Unix utilities will only be relevant if and only if your friend uses a Unix-type email server (like a departmental server handling
all @department.univeristy.edu emails). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">If he’s using Gmail, Google Apps, Office 365, Outlook.com, or most any other larger email provider, the correct steps will be specific to that provider.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hoping he gets better soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Beowulf <beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org> on behalf of Alexandre Ferreira Ramos via Beowulf <beowulf@beowulf.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, January 24, 2025 at 9:01</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Tina Friedrich <tina.friedrich@it.ox.ac.uk><br>
<b>Cc: </b>beowulf@beowulf.org <beowulf@beowulf.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Beowulf] Does anyone here use the email program "mutt"?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:red">This email originated from outside the university. Please use caution when opening attachments, clicking links, or responding to requests.</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hi Sean and Tina, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">thank you very much for your responses! I shall work using your material. Will let you know the outcome. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">All the best, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Alexandre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 11:55</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">AM Tina Friedrich via Beowulf <</span><a href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">beowulf@beowulf.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hello,<br>
<br>
I just remembered something - it's been a while since my work email <br>
wasn't handled by something MS Exchange like - there's a 'vacation' tool <br>
for Linux/Unix systems that can help with this. See e.g. <br>
</span><a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/linux-in-a/0596004826/re470.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/linux-in-a/0596004826/re470.html</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
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It still needs the sort of transport agent that uses e.g. a .forward <br>
file, but (if I remember correctly) makes setting the vacation <br>
forwarding up easier (and handles things like only sending something <br>
like one repsonse per week per sender etc).<br>
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Tina<br>
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On 24/01/2025 14:48, Sean Mc Grath via Beowulf wrote:<br>
> Hi Alexandre,<br>
> <br>
> Get well soon to your friend.<br>
> <br>
> As Tina said, mutt doesn't do this. Here is a procmail example I have <br>
> used in the past but not for a long time. Sorry if it is no help.<br>
> <br>
> Setting up an out of office, (vacation/ auto-reply).<br>
> <br>
> Edit your ~/.procmailrc file, create it first if needed below, update <br>
> the "$lOGNAME@fqdn.tldr" entrie(s).<br>
> Create the ~/.vacation.msg as your automatic response to send to users. <br>
> This should be a plaintext file containing the text of the response you <br>
> want to send to recipients.<br>
> taken from </span><a href="http://system.cs.technion.ac.il/Mail_Guides/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">http://system.cs.technion.ac.il/Mail_Guides/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">
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> Configuring%20Vacation%20Mail%20With%20Procmail.htm [DEAD LINK]<br>
> ### Vaction response,<br>
> <br>
> E.g. ~/.procmailrc contentcs<br>
> :0 Whc: vacation.lock<br>
> * $^To:.*\<$\LOGNAME\><br>
> * !^FROM_DAEMON<br>
> * !^X-Loop: root@*<br>
> ## `--> to not reply to root or ops mails, can have multiple `* !^X- <br>
> Loop:` entries<br>
> # store sender's address in vacation.cache if not there already.<br>
> | /usr/bin/formail -rD 8192 $HOME/.vacation.cache<br>
> :0 ehc<br>
> | (/usr/bin/formail -rA"Precedence: junk" -A"x-loop: <br>
> $lOGNAME@fqdn.tldr" ; cat $HOME/.vacation.msg ) | /usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t<br>
> <br>
> To turn off the vacation response comment out or remove the above from <br>
> your procmail file.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Regards<br>
> <br>
> Sean<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
> *From:* Beowulf <</span><a href="mailto:beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">> on behalf of Tina
<br>
> Friedrich via Beowulf <</span><a href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">beowulf@beowulf.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">><br>
> *Sent:* Friday 24 January 2025 14:44<br>
> *To:* </span><a href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">beowulf@beowulf.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <</span><a href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">beowulf@beowulf.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">><br>
> *Subject:* Re: [Beowulf] Does anyone here use the email program "mutt"?<br>
> [External Email] This email originated outside of Trinity College <br>
> Dublin. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the <br>
> sender and know the content is safe.<br>
> <br>
> Hi Alexandre,<br>
> <br>
> I do use mutt, but not exclusively/heavily, so I might be wrong, but...<br>
> <br>
> I don't think that's a thing mutt can do. Auto-replies are usually set<br>
> on the server/MTA (i.e. procmail, sedmail, MS Exchange...), not in a<br>
> mail client? So if it's the sort of mail system that heeds those, that's<br>
> done in a .forward file or similar.<br>
> <br>
> (If we're dealing with Microsoft 365 - it's in your settings.)<br>
> <br>
> Tina<br>
> <br>
> On 24/01/2025 14:34, Alexandre Ferreira Ramos via Beowulf wrote:<br>
>> Hi All,<br>
>><br>
>> I have a friend who is ill and we need to configure his email<br>
>> for automatically replying to messages. He uses mutt but we do not know<br>
>> how to proceed to set this functionality. I am writing here with the<br>
>> hope that someone is knowledgeable about mutt email system.<br>
>><br>
>> All the best,<br>
>> Alexandre<br>
>><br>
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