On Mon, 13 Apr 2026, Rich Shepard wrote:
The alpine mua does not have an out-of-office response, but I read
on a web page that I can write a script to respond to incoming
messages when I'm away from the office a few days and won't have
access to my network.
Looking at the alpine wiki and other web pages I haven't found
instructions on how to do this. I know there's at least one other
alpine user on this maillist and ask for pointers, suggestions, and
clue sticks on how to set up an automatic responder (which should
piss off the spammers who get through as well as inform legitimate
senders.)
You can use procmail for this. Grep for "vacation" in the
procmailex(5) man page. A file-based version of that recipe can be
found in several places, e.g.,
* https://www1.udel.edu/evelyn/inst.evs (at bottom of page)
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Paul Heinlein
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