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I've just inherited an Undocumented Linux File and Mail Server. In the past week, I audited and discovered several things that had been neglected for a while (logins still active but for long gone employees, etc). I fixed and documented these....

I also discovered that people have gotten used to having 'IT' turn on and off vacation auto reply for email accounts (via .procmailrc ). I do not consider controlling one's vacation auto reply to be an administrative tasks and I seek to quickly put this under user control.

Can someone help me grasp onto an approach to automate this feature? (Difficulty: I'm not very familiar with procmail)

chmeee
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Well, there's a GUI procmail rule builder:

http://www.uvm.edu/opensource/?Page=procbuilder.html

Haven't used it, but looks promising...

You might also consider installing a webmail package, such as SquirrelMail. It has plugins for autoreplies.

sleske
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Have a look at usermin. It is web-based, intended for end-users and can be used to edit .procmailrc files and set up mail forwarding and auto-replies (and much more).

BTW, if you just want vacation auto-replies, I think you could also use the vacation program.

Marie Fischer
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