[sork] Vacation reply interval

[Doug Wilson]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for the helping me with the customization. I
made the change and now the .forward file includes the
-r flag, just like I wanted :)

> This would set it for "-r 2" what ever that means (2
> days?).

Yes, the -r <number> is 'days' according to the my
vacation man page, so "-r 2" is a reasonable choice. I
regularly get people who don't fully read my vacation
message (e.g., my return date) and they end up sending
me urgent requests later in the week. Setting it at a
lower interval like 2 days ensures that they will get
reminded yet again that I'm "still" not around :)

Thanks again for your excellent support.

Doug

--- Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>
wrote:
> Quoting Doug Wilson <sony7818 at yahoo.com>:
> 
> > Just wondering if there was a place in the source
> code
> > where I could customize the vacation reply
> interval
> > (vacation -r <interval>). The normal reply
> interval
> > for is one week, but the -r flag can be used to
> pick
> > another interval.
> 
> This is on the TODO list, but isn't universal so it
> can be a problem.
> For example, in my vacation program it is -t instead
> of -r for this.
> Some don't have it at all.  Some do it in different
> time units, etc.
>  
> > Is this something I can add in the php source if I
> > want to globally change the reply interval?
> 
> Edit vacation/lib/Driver/*.php (probably
> forwards.php, maybe qmail.php)
> and find the lines that read something like:
> 
>         if (!empty($alias) && ($alias != $my_email))
> {
>            $contents = "\\$my_email, \"|" .
> $conf['vacation']['path'] .
>                        " -a $alias $my_email\"";
>         } else {
>            $contents = "\\$my_email, \"|" .
> $conf['vacation']['path'] .
>                        " $my_email\"";
>         }
> 
> and change it to something like:
> 
>         if (!empty($alias) && ($alias != $my_email))
> {
>            $contents = "\\$my_email, \"|" .
> $conf['vacation']['path'] .
>                        " -r 2 -a $alias
> $my_email\"";
>         } else {
>            $contents = "\\$my_email, \"|" .
> $conf['vacation']['path'] .
>                        " -r 2 $my_email\"";
>         }
> 
> This would set it for "-r 2" what ever that means (2
> days?).
> 
> > I'm not entirely sure if this is something that's
> > handled in the source code. Thanks for any
> insight.
> 
> It can be...  If you want to make the modification.
> 
> > Doug
> > 
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