On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Gwen Pettigrew wrote:
> Hi Exim fans,
>
> I am a bit confused as to the behaviour of the "vacation" command in a personal
> filter. Perhaps someone could clarify this for me.
>
> I have set up the the following filter
>
> # Exim filter <--- remove at your own peril
> deliver "test1@???"
> save /var/spool/mail/test2
> vacation expand file /localhome/test2/vacation
>
> It works very well. However if the same sender sends several messages only the
> first message sent gets the vacation message in reply. Is this the correct
> behaviour in exim? And can I turn it off so it behaves like the traditional UNIX
> type "vacation" command ( ie for every message received a vacation message is
> returned)?
(1) I don't think that's the traditional behaviour of the UNIX
"vacation", which only sends one message to a given user (but maybe some
versions repeat after a given interval, e.g. a week).
(2) "vacation" in an Exim filter is just a shorthand for
mail
expand file .vacation.msg
log .vacation.log
once .vacation
If you want a message to be sent every time, you need to use the "mail"
command without the "once" option.
(3) You should put
if error_message then finish endif
as the first command of of your filter file (or at least before the
vacation bit). You don't want it trying to send vacation messages to
error delivery reports.
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