[imp] Vacation Message

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Joseph Brennan <brennan@columbia.edu>:

> The client should not assume that the server is a unix host, or even
> if it is, that the imap account has a home directory in which to put
> vacation files.  The recent proposals for a procmail front end make
> the same bad assumption.  This stuff does not belong in IMP.

Right. It belongs in a seperate module, which can be integrated if it's
relevant.

> At sites that have hardcoded their installation of IMP to go to only
> one specific imap host, then it would certainly be appropriate and
> useful to place a link in the IMP pages to a page where separate
> software can write vacation files, .procmailrc, and so on.  IMP need
> only provide a simple way to stick those links into its menu.  It
> could appear to users to be part of the same web mail service, but
> from a software perspective it's separate.

Exactly.

-chuck

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