Vacation Mail and Forwarding

I. VACATION MAIL

running vacation the standard way causes a lot of bounced
messages. A better way to enable vacation is this

First, login to login.math.wisc.edu, then type
	cd /auto/mail/YOURNAME
where YOURNAME is your username. Then
Instead of using the "vacation" command to create the .forward file, add
the following line to the end of your .procmailrc file:

        :0 c
        | /usr/bin/vacation YOURNAME

where YOURNAME is your username. DO NOT RUN the vacation command.
Just edit/create the file

	/auto/mail/YOURNAME/.vacation.msg

and put in there the message you want sent out while you are on vacation.

When you return from your vacation, just delete or comment out these lines
in your .procmailrc file:

        :0 c
        | /usr/bin/vacation YOURNAME

This will allow our spam filters to process your incoming mail before
it gets to your mailbox and send your vacation message to only legitimate
addresses.

II. FORWARDING MAIL

# To forward filtered mail to a new address, put lines like this in
your /auto/mail/yourusername/.procmailrc file

:0:
!myaddress@somewhere.com

(of course you should replace the last line with your forwarding address).