On 26 Sep 2001 at 19:07, Daniel van Raay wrote:
> On 24 Sep 2001, at 11:54, Dean Staff wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > Ok, I'm back at work and had a chance to do some testing
>
> I'm back at work (ie off vacation) now myself.
>
> >[...]
> The .vacation.db file is written to by the vacation program and is
> used to keep track of which addresses it has replied to. It will only
> reply to the same adress once in any given week (the default time
> period).
>
Aha! I did not know that... I thought it replied to every message. Nice feature..this
stops users
from e-mail bombing an e-mail list. (I wish everyone used this feature, I had 3000+
messages in
my home mail box one day because of someone not unsubcribing to mail list before
setting a
vacation message)
> >[...]
> I then disabled it and re-enabled it and is stopped working again.
>
> This is how the vacation program is supposed to work. If you sent a
> message to the test user from another email account or if you sent it
> a message after a week had elapsed you'd get a response.
>
> Do you think that a week is too long for the vacation program to wait
> until replying to additional messages from the same source?
>
> I could make it a setting that can be change either globally or per-
> user when setting the vacation message text.
>
Like I said earlier... I did not know it was supposed to work that way, but do like
the idea of only
replying once to each sender...
That means it seems to be working just fine. (I'll re-install the user-panel rpms and
double check)
As for waiting a week to send a second message to duplicate senders... The idea is
sound, but
your suggestion to make this configureable on a per user basis is good.
One other suggestion would be to reset the vacation.db after disabling the vacation
message.
Because if the vacation message is changed and re-enabled before a week has passed,
then
anyone who received the old message will have to wait the balance of the week to
receive the
new message. Just a thought.
Cheers
Dean
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