[ Thanks to Andrew
Weber for this link. ]
“Install and Configure the Vacation Option
This installation is for Ubuntu 9.10 but should work for just about
any Linux distro. The vacation package is nice in that you can
create an automatic message for when you are not available.“You will need to install a number of packages.
sudo apt-get install libmail-sender-perl libdbd-mysql-perl
libemail-valid-perl libmime-perl liblog-log4perl-perl
liblog-dispatch-perl libgetopt-argvfile-perl libmime-charset-perl
libmime-encwords-perl“Install a Perl Module
“From the command line install the Mail::Sendmail perl
module.perl -MCPAN -e shell;
“Set it up, likely just hitting enter will provide the options
you need. Once it is complete you will have a shell login for
installing modules. Issue this command:”
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