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From: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: filter & vacation?
Message-ID: <1991May16.000407.5278@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 16 May 91 00:04:07 GMT
References: <1991May15.185010.27082@ge-dab.GE.COM>
Reply-To: steven@Transact.COM
Organization: Transact Software
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brooks@sundance7.dab.ge.com (Stephen Brooks) writes:

>  Anyone have any suggestions on how (if possible) to use both "filter" and
>a "vacation" (or equivalent) program?  What should the .forward file look
>like?  With "filter", the .forward file looks like this:
>
>"| /util/bin/filter -o /usr/users/brooks/.elm/filter_errors"
>
>I currently let "filter" save mail messages from a couple of mailing lists
>to the appropriate folders.  However, I don't need "vacation" to send the
>mailing lists a response that I'm on vacation.
>
>Anyone done this (use "filter" and a vacation program at the same time)?
>Any hints/tips/etc. would be appreciated.

I'm about to try this.  My assumption is that Elm's arepdaemon actually
doesn't see the messages until they're added to my mailbox.  So if I
catch them with a filter rule (which I've changed from "savecopy" to
"save" while I'm gone), then only those messages that get put into
my mailbox will be autoreplied to.  And I've set up a crontab entry
to run "filter -sc" periodically so that I'll be sent a count of 
what messages have been stored in my various mailboxes while I'm gone.

Anyone got any comments on my scheme?  Like if arepdaemon doesn't do
what I think?
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