Re: [cobalt-users] vacation.pl

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Andrew" <ajb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> in vacation.pl the line that is as follows
>
>
> if ($vacadb{$sendto} >= ($^T - 604800)) {
>
> Am I correct that this line means that the autoresponce
> will not be sent out twice if it has an email address in
> the DB the same for 604800 seconds. ?

Yes.

> I want to make the vacation mail an autoresponce
> and would like to bring this down to one day so
> do I just change this to 86400

Yes.

> Thought it was better to find out befour I did something wrong :-)

Well, the vacation responder is not intended to be a true autoresponder.  By
reducing the period until the next reply for a given email address it's
still not going to be a true autoresponder.  It seems that you know what you
want, but if you do want a true autoresponder you should consider using
procmail to create a recipe for one that is independent of the perl script
you found.  Many procmail tutorials contain recipes for autoresponders.

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