help needed for vacation(1)

[Andrew Degtiariov]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 01:30:02PM -0600, ertank at softhome.net wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I want to send a vacation notice to everybody who sends an e-mail to me. In 
> the mean time, I want to have this e-mail delivered in my box. I found that 
> vacation is on this purpose. Be informed that I am not very familiar with 
> .forward files. 
> 
> My .forward file contains below line:
> \ek, "|/usr/bin/vacation ek" 
> 
> I get e-mails in my box. Problem is that my system do not send 
> ~/.vacation.msg as a reply. If I remove "\ek, " part in the .forward file. 
> It just reply to mail, and I loose the e-mail sent to me. 
> 
> I tried several combinations like:
> ---
> \ek
> "|/usr/bin/vacation ek"
> ---
> "|/usr/bin/vacation ek"
> \ek
> --- 
> 
> None solved the problem. System either reply or deliver incoming mail to my 
> box. Any help is appreciated. 
As suggesion of your problem use "|/usr/local/bin/procmail" in your .forward 
and any actions do in .procmailrc. 
procmail is not part of the base system but you may install it from
ports.

-- 
Andrew Degtiariov 
DA-RIPE