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Enable/Disable Email Vacation Autoresponder

Enable Vacation Autoreponse

  1. Open Putty and choose scabusa.ag.cornell.edu sesssion:
    1. putty open
  2. Login to scabusa.ag.cornell.edu:
    1. Putty login Screen
  3. Enter the following command, without quotes, "vi .vacation.msg" and hit return:
    1. VI CMMD
  4. Edit the text as you see fit. Vi editor commands can be found here.
    1. vi editor
  5. When editing is done exit the vi editor. Then use it to open another file. Command = "vi .forward" 
    1. vi forward
  6. Remove the # character on the first line so that it reads like the image below, then close and save.
    1. editforward1
  7. Your vacation response system is now working!

Disable Vacation Autoreponse

  1. Open putty and login following steps 1 and 2 above.
  2. Use the vi editor to edit the .forward file as per step 6 above. Add a # to the beginning of the first line so that it looks like this. Save and close.
    1. turn off forward
  3. You vacation autoresponder is now disabled!