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

[Alexandre Ferreira Ramos]

Hi Sean and Tina,

thank you very much for your responses! I shall work using your material.
Will let you know the outcome.

All the best,
Alexandre



On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM Tina Friedrich via Beowulf <
beowulf at beowulf.org> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From:* Beowulf <beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org> on behalf of Tina
> > Friedrich via Beowulf <beowulf at beowulf.org>
> > *Sent:* Friday 24 January 2025 14:44
> > *To:* beowulf at beowulf.org <beowulf at beowulf.org>
> > *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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