mazur@harvard.UUCP (Eric Mazur) (12/19/85)
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