willingminds / pmvacation

Simple procmail script and recipe to send out-of-office messages with a predetermined schedule

pmvacation

• vacation.pl

  • script to automatically respond to email with predetermined start/start date/time parameters.

• sample-vacation.cfg

  • some ideas on how to setup scheduled OOO responses

To enable this in procmail, reference the vacation.pl script as follows (adjust to suit). NOTE: this requires $PMDIR/vacation.txt, which should have a generic vacation message -- the output from vacation.pl via the configuration will be prepended to that content.

PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
VACATION=`$PMDIR/bin/vacation.pl`
MYADDR=[e-mail]
MYNAME=Frodo Baggins
NL="
"

:0
* ! VACATION ?? no
{
    LOG="Checking vacation restricted addresses${NL}"

    :0
    * 1^0 FROMADDR ?? no-?reply@
    * 1^0 FROMADDR ?? do-not-reply@
    * 1^0 FROMADDR ?? donotreply@
    * 1^0 FROMADDR ?? bounceback@
    * 1^0 FROMADDR ?? bounce\+[^@]+@
    {
	LOG="Resetting VACATION to no due to restricted address${NL}"
	VACATION=no
    }
}

:0
  # Only do this if VACATION is set yes
* VACATION ?? yes
{
  LOG="vacation enabled - myaddr is $MYADDR${NL}"

  :0 Whc: vacation.lock
    # Don't reply to mail I send myself
  * ! FROMADDR ?? $MYADDR
    # Don't reply to daemons and mailinglists
  * !^FROM_DAEMON
  * !^FROM_MAILER
    # Don't reply to messages thought to be spam
  * !^X-Spam-Flag: YES
    # Ignore messages from known bulk sources (e.g., mailing list managers)
  * !^Precedence: (bulk|junk)
    # Ignore if discernably in a mailing list
  * !^List-
  * !^(Mailing-List|Approved-By|BestServHost|Resent-(Message-ID|Sender)):
  * !^X-[^:]*-List:
  * !^X-(Sent-To|(Listprocessor|Mailman)-Version):
    # Ignore looped messages
  * !^X-Loop: $MYADDR
    # Add message to cache
  | formail -rD 8192 $PMDIR/vacation.cache

      :0 ehc    # if the name was not in the cache
      * ? test -r $PMDIR/vacation.txt
      | (formail -r \
		 -I"Precedence: junk" \
		 -A"X-Loop: $MYADDR" \
		 -I"From: $MYNAME <$MYADDR>"; \
	 $PMDIR/bin/vacation.pl --preamble; \
	 echo ""; \
	 cat $PMDIR/vacation.txt ) \
      | $SENDMAIL -oi -t

      :0 a
      {
	LOG="out-of-office reply successfully sent to $FROMADDR from $MYADDR${NL}"
      }
}