[lug] Implementing Vacation

[Quentin Hartman]

I've used the webpage method before. The page was actually on the mail
server, so there was no ssh stuff needed. Also, rather than having it set
the state directly, I had it write to a csv file that contained
user,"message",begin,end and then had a hourly cron that processed that
file and made sure that all the user's settings were right, and if  someone
logged in and already had a message set, they could edit it, or change
begin and end, or what have you. It worked pretty well.

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:13 PM, George Sexton <georges at mhsoftware.com>
wrote:

>  I'm looking for ideas on how to implement vacation for mail accounts. The
> users are not really very technical, so the simpler the better.
>
> I did have a win32 program that I used, but that required them to have a
> mapping out to the server. Because of some changes I'd rather not do that.
>
> I'm thinking of doing a web interface that would prompt the user for the
> message and their password. When they submit the form, I'd do some process
> as their user name and put the file in. I was thinking of using a
> tomcat/jsp page to get the user data, and then using an SSH library to
> create the .forward and the .vacation.msg files.
>
> Does anyone have any thing their using that works OK for non-technical
> users?
>
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> George Sexton
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