You need to have an account on the server. If you do not have an account please contact the server admin.

Log into the shell of the dega server with putty or similar applications. Use you own username and type in the password after the prompt asks for it. The domain you have to use is

dega-akustik.de

echo "\"|/usr/bin/vacation -a $USER@dega-akustik.de $USER\"\n\"|/usr/bin/maildrop -d $USER\"" > .forward

Now you have to write the reply message. You can use nano (simple) or vim (for advanced user).

nano .vacation.msg

Here you can paste you message, but the first 2 lines are reserved for mail header information, please add these 2 line at the very begining of the file!

First line: you have to replace USERNAME with your own username.

From: USERNAME@dega-akustik.de

Second line: use any subject.

Subject: Out of office

Beginning with the third line you can add whatever you want, maybe something similar to

Hi!

I am out of office and will be back in 21st September 2008.

Kind regards

Now you have to save the file and close it. In nano this means typing in "CTRL+O" together, after that "CTRL+X" to close it.

You are nearly done! Now tell vacation that you want to activate autoreply: simply execute

vacation -I

That's it, nice vacancies!