The entries in this menu allow you to use the UNIX "vacation" program.
It 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 saved as usual in your mail box.

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

To use "vacation", first select the menu entry to create a message, and
then select the entry to initialize 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 reinitialize "vacation" between tests.

If you are having mail forwarded from some other account to your UCLink
account, "vacation" may not reply to the forwarded mail. 

"vacation" only responds to mail received which includes your logon
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 receive mail on UCLink from an account on another system
with a different logon name, "vacation" will not respond to that mail.
E.g. if mail to "president@uclink" where forwarded to "bclinton@uclink",
then "vacation" would not send replies to that mail.  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.
