Ok, thanks I'll look into those. I'm thinking that an email based system
would be more convenient than a web based one for the users in question;
so I may end up having a go myself anyway, it seems like a good excuse
to practice my python coding :)
Regards
Simon
Mike Richardson wrote:
>>thing. My second thought was that maybe someone has coded a webpage
>>version along the same idea.
>>
>>
>
>A quick google shows that various Universities (Sussex, Reading, Oxford
>and Cambridge at least) all have a web based vac message (amongst other
>things) system. I'd like to think that at least one of them would be good
>enough to let you have the source code if you asked nicely.
>
>In fact Cambridge's is available for download:
>ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/prayer
>but I believe that Prayer is a fully featured IMAP web client so you
>might have to strip it down a bit.
>
>I believe that most of the relevant mail admins are on this list as well.
>
>I vaguely remember trying something like this myself a while back with
>virtual users in a mysql database and it wasn't too difficult to write
>a web page which authenticates against Mysql and can set the appropriate
>values. Configuring exim to spot if there was an entry in the DB for a
>vacation message wasn't too bad either.
>
>Mike
>
>
>
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