Exim includes a vacation facility - not as a separate program but as
part of the filtering you can include in your .forward file.

John

Eva Myers wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 09:14:53AM -0400, Brent L. Bates wrote:
>>      The `vacation' command is part of sendmail, at least it is part of the
>> original sendmail.org sources.  TUV may not compile it as part of their
>> distribution and therefore does not get into the SL distributions.
> 
> Actually I have uninstalled sendmail because I prefer exim, so that is
> probably the problem.  I will try reinstalling sendmail and see
> whether it includes the vacation command.
> Eva.