On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:58:03PM -0700, Martin H wrote:
> We are using exim as our MTA and would like to know
> how to set the following up. I will explain with an
> example:
>
> Bob has an autoreply set. John sends Bob and email and
> receives Bob's autoreply. John sends bob another
> email, but doesn't receive the autoreply. If Mary
> sends Bob an email, she will receive the autoreply.
> However, a week later (after receiving the autoreply),
> if John sends Bob another email, he will receive the
> autoreply.
>
> So, what I am asking is how to set up exim to send
> someone's autoreply only once per week per user.
>
> Looking back at the example, John receives the
> autoreply only once per week. Mary receives the
> autoreply only once per week.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
Maybe not what you want, but the BSD vacation program does this sort of
thing pretty well.
man vacation for details.
cheers
dc
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