Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply

[lyd mc]

hi derek,

It is by the way mydomain.com, sorry.

I also tried no period on user account...

klyren at mydomain.com


...still it does not auto reply.


thanks,

alydiomc


--- On Tue, 4/21/09, 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
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 7:40 PM


 
At 08:16 PM 4/19/2009, lyd mc wrote:


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

In the log entry above, I see:

ctladdr=<alydio.mc at mydomain>  

I suspect this is NOT a deliverable address but that depends on how you
have mydomain resolving.


Also you might want to try using a user account without a period
in the name.  The period may be causing a silent parsing problem for
sendmail and vacation.


          -Derek





--- 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.







-- 


Best regards,




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Nairobi,KE


+254733744121/+254722743223


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