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--- vacation_messages_setup [2018/07/04 09:19] – [Procmail Alternative] deul
+++ vacation_messages_setup [2022/08/16 08:00] (current) – jansen
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-====== Vacation messages setup ======
+====== Vacation messages setup | E-mail auto reply ======
-{{:setting-away-message-in-outlook.jpg?nolink&200 |}} You can setup a vacation message while you are away from your email in several ways. The most simple method is email yourself a specific message (see below). This may, however, not be so simple if you setup your mail program to use HTML formatted email or if you use an exotic program such as Outlook. For such occasions the webmail utility provides a nice feature (also see below). As a last resort you can always us the Linux specific procmail utiltity, which for all STRW and IL accounts has been setup for you already (see last section below).
+{{:setting-away-message-in-outlook.jpg?nolink&200 |}} You can setup a "vacation message" while you are away from your email in several ways. All this makes use of the Linux specific procmail utiltity, which for all STRW and IL accounts has been setup for you already (see last section below).
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+We provide a form to set this up at the
+[[https://intranet.strw.leidenuniv.nl/services/restricted/index.php?self_service=vacation|STRW Self service]]
+This from is only accessible from inside the institute, so you either have to be there physically, or use VPN, VPC or any of the other remote access methods.
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+Below are some older methods that are still available:
 ===== Email yourself =====
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-===== Use Roundcube WEB mail ====
+===== Procmail Setup =====
-The Observatory and Lorentz Institute provide web mail facilities ([[https://mail.strw.leidenuniv.nl/webmail| STRW]] and [[https://webmail.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl| IL]] respectively) that allow you to read and write email from your  account using a standard WEB browser. The tool providing this facility is based on the open source package Roundcube. This package has several plugins, one of which is the vacation plugin. You can access this plugin by selecting the Settings option (top right). Once selected you are presented a window with tabs, one of the tabs is the Vacation Tab:
-{{::roundcube_vacation1.png?600|}}
-Click on the Vacation tab and (after some time) you are presented the vacation form:
-{{::roundcube_vacation2.png?600|}}
-If you did not yet set a vacation message, a default text is filled in for you to modify. Then select the checkbox 'Enable vacation message' and click on the Save button. Now this text is put into your vacation message file and from this point on people who send you an email will get this text in reply.
-If you have a vacation message setup previously, you will see the text from that vacation message in the form. You now have two options,
-  * modify the text, tick the checkbox and click Save to update your message text, or
-  * leave the checkbox unchecked and click Save to remove the vacation message and thus disabling the vacation messaging system
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-===== Procmail Alternative =====
 Vacation messages are setup at the mail server using the [[procmail]] program facilities.
-Below you find the lines (that may be commented out in your .procmailrc file) which have to be the .procmailrc file to make [[procmail]] perform the same actions as the vacation program, excluding the problems mentioned above. If you don't have a .procmailrc file, or an older one without these additions, run **''SfinxUpdate .procmailrc''** to install a [[procmail]] setup on your account.
+Below you find the lines (that may already be in your .procmailrc file) which have to be in the .procmailrc file to make [[procmail]] perform the same actions as the vacation program. If you don't have a .procmailrc file, or an older one without these additions, run **''SfinxUpdate .procmailrc''** to install a [[procmail]] setup on your account.

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