Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply

[lyd mc]

Hi derek,

Correction on step 4, it should be:

\alydio.mc, "|/usr/bin/vacation alydio.mc"

thanks,

alyd


--- On Mon, 4/20/09, lyd mc <alydiomc at yahoo.com> wrote:
From: lyd mc <alydiomc at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply
To: "Derek Ragona" <derek at computinginnovations.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, 9:07 AM

hi derek,

It is not also working on my sendmail.

May be I overlooked some steps?

step 1. login to user 
# su alydio.mc

step 2. initialize vacation db 
$ vacation -i

step 3. create .vacation.msg 

 From: alydio.mc at mydomain.com
 Subject: I am on vacation
 Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: The Vacation program
 Precedence: bulk

 I am on vacation until.......

step 4. create .forward

\klyren, "|/usr/bin/vacation klyren"


sendmail log

Apr 20 08:21:08 MAIL sm-mta[18102]: n3K0L2Jl018092: to="|/usr/bin/vacation alydio.mc", ctladdr=<alydio.mc at mydomain> (1001/0), delay=00:00:05, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=62458, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

...nothing follows...

thanks
alydiomc

--- On Fri, 4/17/09, Derek Ragona
 <derek at computinginnovations.com> wrote:
From: Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com>
Subject: Re: Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply
To: alydiomc at yahoo.com, "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo at gmail.com>
Cc: "Steve Bertrand" <steve at ibctech.ca>, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 9:51 PM


 
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 the one from ports is obsolete (as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





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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