On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 09:51 -0400, Carlos Williams wrote: > I had a user ask me if the Postfix email server can auto respond w/ > "Out of Office" reply rather than do this on his client in case his > machine is rebooted and or shut off. I Google'd this first and found a > program called "Vacation" which appears to be somewhat compatible > however I am not sure since I have neither installed or used it as if > yet. I read the man page and it appears like a process getting up and > running so I thought I would ask here 1st if there is a more efficient > way in Postfix to get this up and running w/o having to install a > separate application / daemon to do what I am looking for.
If your delivering to a Cyrus IMAPd server then SIEVE has very nice facilities to handle vacation messages for you. Several rather nice UI/clients are available as well so users can setup their own messages.