Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply

[Derek Ragona]

At 07:27 AM 4/17/2009, lyd mc wrote:
>Thanks Odhiambo for your time.
>
>Actually i have a working vacation program  from freebsd ports 
>(/usr/ports/mail/vacation).
>
>I only wondering why the freebsd base vacation behave differently....
>
>I still want freebsd base vacation... the one from ports is obsolete (as 
>per its maintainer website) and sometime i need to edit its makefile for 
>it to compile....
>
>Thanks again.
>
>

I think the base system vacation is the one that is part of sendmail.  So 
using it with postfix as the MTA may be the issue.  I have use the base 
vacation version flawlessly with sendmail.

         -Derek






>--- On Fri, 4/17/09, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote:
>From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply
>To: alydiomc at yahoo.com
>Cc: "Steve Bertrand" <steve at ibctech.ca>, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 8:10 PM
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>On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:47 PM, lyd mc <alydiomc at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>hi,
>
>I don't know how to run it in debug mode....
>
>I already try this one.....
>
>#/usr/bin/vacation -d alydio.mc
>
>but nothing happened... no logs in /var/log/message and /var/log/maillog 
>pertaining to vacation.
>
>
>Okay. I think you need to look again at your MTA logs. Not being an expert 
>with Postfix, I am not sure I can help with it anyway.
>
>
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