On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, V. T. Mueller, Continum wrote:
> in the way that in an a vacation transport with once set,
> each time a message is handled the to: address is looked up
> in the db. If it's not in there already, it'll be recorded.
> If already in, the autoreply is only sent if the current
> time is greater than the timestamp in the db plus the value
> of once_repeat. Is my understanding of this correct?
Correct.
> If yes, it should be possible to check if the possible
> recipient of a vacation message has been notified already
> that very day or n - according to the setting of the
> respective variable - days in the past.
Yes, I suppose that could be done. I am not convinced that it is worth
doing, however. As you yourself said, people think of "business days".
*That* would be much harder. And what if a warning is sent at 23:59 one
night? It would then send another at 00:01 because it is the next day...
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