Name
-l (lowercase L)
Synopsis
Beginning with V8.12 sendmail, you can list the senders contained in the vacation program’s database. Every time you receive a mail message from someone, that individual’s mail address is looked up in the vacation program’s database. If the address if found, and if the date associated with it is zero or if it is newer than the timeout interval, no vacation message is sent. If the address is found, and if the date associated with it is older than the timeout interval, a vacation message is sent and the date for that address’s record is updated to the present. If the address is absent from the database, a vacation message is sent and that address is added to the database and is given the present time.
The -l
command-line switch causes
vacation to print a list of the sender addresses
it has in its database, one address per line, in the following
format:
address date
The address
is the sender address that received
the message, or an address preset with the -x
command-line switch. The date is when the message was last sent, or,
for -x
addresses, either a zero (which displays as
Wed Dec 31 17:00:00 1969) prior to V8.12.4, or a literal
(exclusion)
for V8.12.4 and above:
friend@remote.site.com Fri Mar 1 15:10:48 2002 buddy@another.com Wed Dec 31 17:00:00 1969 ←V8.12.3 and before buddy@another.com (exclusion)←V8.12.4 and above
The first line shows a sender who recently received a vacation message. The second line shows a sender address that was put in the database ...
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