[Beowulf] Does anyone here use the email program "mutt"?

[Tina Friedrich]

Hello,

I just remembered something - it's been a while since my work email 
wasn't handled by something MS Exchange like - there's a 'vacation' tool 
for Linux/Unix systems that can help with this. See e.g. 
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/linux-in-a/0596004826/re470.html

It still needs the sort of transport agent that uses e.g. a .forward 
file, but (if I remember correctly) makes setting the vacation 
forwarding up easier (and handles things like only sending something 
like one repsonse per week per sender etc).

Tina


On 24/01/2025 14:48, Sean Mc Grath via Beowulf wrote:
> Hi Alexandre,
> 
> Get well soon to your friend.
> 
> As Tina said, mutt doesn't do this. Here is a procmail example I have 
> used in the past but not for a long time. Sorry if it is no help.
> 
> Setting up an out of office, (vacation/ auto-reply).
> 
> Edit your ~/.procmailrc file, create it first if needed below, update 
> the "$lOGNAME at fqdn.tldr" entrie(s).
> Create the ~/.vacation.msg as your automatic response to send to users. 
> This should be a plaintext file containing the text of the response you 
> want to send to recipients.
> taken from http://system.cs.technion.ac.il/Mail_Guides/ 
> Configuring%20Vacation%20Mail%20With%20Procmail.htm [DEAD LINK]
> ### Vaction response,
> 
> E.g. ~/.procmailrc contentcs
> :0 Whc: vacation.lock
> * $^To:.*\<$\LOGNAME\>
> * !^FROM_DAEMON
> * !^X-Loop: root@*
> ## `--> to not reply to root or ops mails, can have multiple `* !^X- 
> Loop:` entries
> # store sender's address in vacation.cache if not there already.
> | /usr/bin/formail -rD 8192 $HOME/.vacation.cache
> :0 ehc
> | (/usr/bin/formail -rA"Precedence: junk" -A"x-loop: 
> $lOGNAME at fqdn.tldr" ; cat $HOME/.vacation.msg ) | /usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t
> 
> To turn off the vacation response comment out or remove the above from 
> your procmail file.
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> *Sent:* Friday 24 January 2025 14:44
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> *Subject:* Re: [Beowulf] Does anyone here use the email program "mutt"?
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> Hi Alexandre,
> 
> I do use mutt, but not exclusively/heavily, so I might be wrong, but...
> 
> I don't think that's a thing mutt can do. Auto-replies are usually set
> on the server/MTA (i.e. procmail, sedmail, MS Exchange...), not in a
> mail client? So if it's the sort of mail system that heeds those, that's
> done in a .forward file or similar.
> 
> (If we're dealing with Microsoft 365 - it's in your settings.)
> 
> Tina
> 
> On 24/01/2025 14:34, Alexandre Ferreira Ramos via Beowulf wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have a friend who is ill and we need to configure his email
>> for automatically replying to messages. He uses mutt but we do not know
>> how to proceed to set this functionality. I am writing here with the
>> hope that someone is knowledgeable about mutt email system.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Alexandre
>>
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