-x

-x

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Exclude a list of addresses

vacation command-line switch

Some addresses should not receive replies from vacation . Your boss might be one such case, or perhaps some friends who don't need to know you're away. To exclude addresses, just create a file that contains the list of addresses, one address per line. For example:

 [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] 

You execute vacation from the command line like this:

 %  /usr/ucb/vacation -x <   list  

The -x command-line switch causes vacation to read one address at a time from its standard input and add it to a list of addresses to exclude from replies.

To make things easier, if you specify a domain with an @ at the front, all addresses in that domain will also be excluded:

 %  echo @your.domain  /usr/ucb/vacation -x  

Here, instead of using a file as before, a single domain is echoed through the vacation program. The -x command-line switch causes all addresses in the domain your.domain to be excluded from vacation replies.

Whenever you add addresses to the exclusion list, you can rerun vacation with -x and the new addresses will be added. Initializing the database with -i clears the list, so whenever you initialize, be sure to reload your list with -x . The two switches can be combined, perhaps in a Makefile , to make initializing easier:

 vacation:         /usr/ucb/vacation -i -x < $(HOME)/.vacation.exclude