The entries in this menu allow you to forward mail and/or use the UNIX
"vacation" program to automatically respond to mail.

Mail forwarding allows you to have all your mail forwarded to another
email address.  For example, if you are spending the semester at UCLA,
you may want all your email forwarded to an account you are using there.

Vacation sends email to each correspondent who has sent you email,
notifying them that you are not currently reading your mail.  The
notification includes a message which you have composed.  The mail sent
to you is normally saved as usual in your mail box.

You can combine forwarding and vacation  For example, if you are
leaving Berkeley and have an email address elsewhere, you can have
your mail forwarded and send a notice to each person who sends you mail
that they would be better off sending mail to your new address.

Vacation sends your message to each sender only once per week.  It
tries to avoid sending it when it is inappropriate, e.g. to mailing
lists, etc.

To use vacation first select the menu entry to create a message, and
then select the entry to start using vacation or forwarding plus
vacation.  It is useful then to test it, or have a friend test it from
another account.  Remember, though, that if you test it several times
from the same account, you need to restart vacation between tests
(because it only sends its message once a week to each correspondent).

Vacation only responds to mail received which includes your login in
the "To:" or "Cc:" fields of the mail header.  This means that it
usually does not send replies to mailing lists.

However if you forward mail from an account with a different login on
another system to UCLink, vacation will not respond to that mail.  E.g.
if mail to "president@uclink" were forwarded to "bclinton@uclink",
then vacation would not send its message to people who sent mail to
"president@uclink".  Contact consult if that is a problem for you.

For the technical at heart, here is the detailed description
from the manual of when vacation responds to mail:

     No message will be sent unless login or an alias supplied using the -a
     option is a substring of either the ``To:'' or ``Cc:'' headers of the
     mail.  No messages from ``???-REQUEST'', ``Postmaster'', ``UUCP'',
     ``MAILER'', or ``MAILER-DAEMON'' will be replied to, nor is a notifica-
     tion sent if a ``Precedence: bulk'' or ``Precedence: junk'' line is
     included in the mail headers.  Only one message per week will be sent to
     each unique sender.
