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                     Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 10:16:03 -0500
                     From: Eric Durant <eadurant@concentric.net>
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                  Subject: Re: procmail and vacation
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Robert S Kissel wrote:
>Eric Durant <eadurant@concentric.net> wrote about trying and failing
>to use procmail and vacation to manage his mail-routing while he was
>away.
> 
>I reply:
>
>I spoke to technical support some years ago about this, and learned
>that (for reasons that aren't entirely clear to me) that they have
>not made provision for us shell account customers to use either technique
>to handle e-mail while we are away.

The policy seems unchanged - see below.

[...]
>They said--and it turned out to be the case--that they would overlook
>the pileup of mail, which, of course, I downloaded and dealt with when
>I got back.
[...]
>It doesn't solve the problem of providing an automated reply, of
>course, but I thought perhaps these experiences might be pertinent.

Thanks for the information.  Incidentally, here is the reply I just
received from Concentric:

]Concentric Network does not allow procmail or any other feature of the
]sort to be executed on our server.  Our System Administrators have
]implemented this restriction for security reasons.
]
]I apologize for the inconvenience.
]  
]If you have additional questions or concerns, please feel free to
]contact us again.

It is surprising that system administrators so tight about security as
to disallow custom procmail scripts would deny my request to allow ssh
access to shell accounts.

Eric Durant
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