Vacation message

Vacation message can be sent to all mails received (with some restrictions).
This is usable when the user has a instant connection to Internet or when autodial is used.

To setup the vacation message

  • Edit the vacation.txt
  • Activate Vacation in program settings

To stop the vacation message

  • De-activate Vacation in program settings

Problems with vacation message

  • Vacation message can be a problem for mailing list
    as the program can not see if it is a mailing list at the moment.
  • In the future mailing lists can be detected if the tags for mailing lists is used.

Function Specification:

General

Vacation message is automaticly sent to all who send messages to the user when the feature is selected.

After a message is successfully received the program checks if the user has vacation selected.
If the function is selected the program creates a vacation message from the vacation.txt file and sent to the mail queue
If the vacation.txt file contains $SUBJECT this is replaced with the received mails subject.

Sending message

After all mails is checked/downloaded the mail queue is sent automaticly.

Loop avoidance

To avoid message looping messages with the folowing subject
is not responded with a vecation message:
  • Vacation message
  • Failure Notice
  • Delivery Status Notification

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