The vacation program
A variation on mail forwarding is automatic
mail answering. If you are going to be away for an extended
period, you can run the vacation program on a Unix system. The program will prompt you to record a message along
the lines of: "This is Bernie. My computer received your mail,
but I won't be reading it until I return from Mars." Until
you delete it, this message will be sent to anyone who sends
you electronic mail, so your correspondents will know that you
are not ignoring them. For more details, read the manual page
via the Unix command "man vacation".
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