Quote:>> I'm looking for a UNIX program that will monitor incoming e-mail while I'm
>> away and send a reply to each sender,
>> notifying him/her that I'm currently on vacation, sabatical, etc.
>> [...]
>> Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.
>[...]
>vacation (or whatever). if gone.fishing isn't available, it's not
>too hard to write a script that can perform the same functions, but let's
>not reinvent the wheel unless we have to.
On the contrary, I would say it's very hard to write such a script
**and get it right!** The problem is dealing with junk mail, mailing
lists, and returned mail. You have to make sure you don't send
messages to mailing lists, or you'll send out a message, get a copy
yourself, send out a message in reply to copy.... Same think with
mail that bounces, if you reply to the bounce warning.
Basically, it's very easy to write a program that will inundate your
system with errant mail. ``Don't try this at home.''
-Joel
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|_|~~ Germany, Europe. 1943. "The diameter of the bomb was 30 centimeters,
__|~| 16 Million DEAD. and the diameter of its destruction, about 7
meters, and in it four killed and 11 wounded.
cnc Bosnia, Europe. 1993. And around these, in a larger circle of pain
cnc HOW MANY MORE? and time, are scattered two hospitals and one
cemetery. But the young woman who was buried in
the place from where she came, at a distance of more than
than 100 kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably. And the
lonely man who is mourning her death in a distant country incorporates
into the circle the whole world. And I won't speak of the cry of the orphans
that reaches God's chair and from there makes the circle endless and godless."
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