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- From: Eric Mazur <mazur@harvard.uucp>
- Newsgroups: net.sources
- Subject: vacation.sh
- Message-ID: <558@harvard.UUCP>
- Date: 18 Dec 85 21:39:58 GMT
- Keywords: mail-answering, vacation, shell script, Venix
- To: unix-sources@BRL-TGR.ARPA
-
- A little while ago I requested from the net a program to answer incoming
- mail during my absence (No, I don't have sendmail; can't use .forward...).
- Since I received no reply, I started writing my own little shell script.
- Even though I probably re-invented the wheel, it was nice, and I think the
- result is neat! Besides, some people might not have seen this wheel yet.
- So here we go. The header explains it all. Happy holidays!
-
- Eric Mazur
-
- P.S.: I would very much appreciate receiving any comments, suggestions,
- improvements and bug reports you have. It runs fine on Venix/PRO,
- so (with all respect for Venix) it should really work on any
- other Unix version.
-
- ARPA-NET: mazur@harvard.harvard.EDU
- BITNET: mazur@harvunxh.bitnet
- UUCP: /----- mazur
- / /--- dasy!mazur
- {seismo,harpo,ihnp4,linus,allegra,ut-sally}!harvard! ------
- \ \___ lasex!mazur
- \_____ molphy!mazur
-
- ------------------------------- vacation(.sh) ---------------------------------
- : Shell script to answer your mail while you are gone. Will only work on
- : Usenet, probably not to other networks. Will not work if you don't have
- : the UCB "from" utility. You might try "grep From" on your mailbox instead,
- : but that is not water-tight.
-
- : USAGE:
- : 1. Put a ".vacation" note in your home directory - this is the file that
- : is going to be sent in reply to your incoming mail.
- : 2. Type "vacation [-c]" and have a nice vacation. The -c option will
- : cause the program to keep a ".vmbox.log" of answered mail.
- : 3. When you come back - heaven forbid - remove the ".vacation" file.
- : 4. Read your mail with "mail -f vmbox".
-
- : AUTHOR: Eric Mazur, 17 December 1985 - about to leave for a vacation.
- : Mail improvements and bugs to: mazur@harvard.uucp
-
- : BUG: Relies heavily on the fact that the basename of your home directory
- : is the same as your login name, but unfortunately "who am i"
- : yield the desired answer when executed by "at".
-
- case $1 in
- "") ;;
- -c) check=1 ;;
- *) echo Usage: vacation [-c]; exit ;;
- esac
-
- if test -f $HOME/.vacation : vacation will die if file removed
- then
- me=`basename $HOME`
- mybox='/usr/spool/mail/'$me
- to=`from | awk '{printf("%s ",$2)}END{printf("\n")}'`
- cat $mybox >> $HOME/vmbox
- cp /dev/null $mybox
- mail -s "Re: Your message" $to < $HOME/.vacation
- if test $check
- then
- /bin/echo -n "Replied to: $to on " >> $HOME/vmbox.log
- date >> $HOME/vmbox.log
- fi
- echo vacation $1 | at 1am : do it again tomorrow
- exit
- else : vacation over; the boss is back
- echo "Couldn't find $HOME/.vacation."
- exit
- fi
-
- --
- Eric Mazur
-
- ARPA-NET: mazur@harvard.harvard.EDU
- BITNET: mazur@harvunxh.bitnet
- UUCP: /----- mazur
- / /--- dasy!mazur
- {seismo,harpo,ihnp4,linus,allegra,ut-sally}!harvard! ------
- \ \___ lasex!mazur
- \_____ molphy!mazur
-