RE: vacation

["Steve Silverberg (Exchange)" <stevesil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think the point that Ned made was that to do Out of Office processing
you expect the mail system to keep a database of recipients who have
received your oof message. You could certainly implement out of office
using sieve but that would probably require extensions to maintain your
database. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jack De Winter [SMTP:jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Thursday, May 22, 1997 5:14 PM
> To:	Tim Showalter; MTA Filters
> Subject:	Re: vacation
> 
> At 07:02 PM 5/22/97 -0400, Tim Showalter wrote:
> >Should the base spec provide a way to do vacation-style forwarding?
> >What should this mechanism be?
> 
> I thought that sieve kind of made a vacation system surpufluous (sp?)?
> Are are you talking about the mechanics behind vacation?  If so,
> could you spell out what you think those mechanics entail so we can
> get a clear picture?
> 
> regards,
> Jack
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