Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply

[Andre Albsmeier]

On Thu, 16-Apr-2009 at 18:00:26 +0000, lyd mc wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Why Freebsd built-in vacation program (/usr/bin/vacation) does not auto reply?
> 
> I am using fresh installed Freebsd7.0 and 7.1. here is my configs.

Did you solve the problem already? I had a similar issue and
tracked it down to a really strange compiler bug...

	-Andre

> 
> Under the home directory of the user (alydio.mc)
> 
> .forward
> ??? \alydio.mc, "|/usr/bin/vacation alydio.mc"
> 
> .vacation.msg
> ?? Subject: On vacation message
> ?? From: alydio.mc at mydomain.com
> ?? I'm on vacation and will not be reading my mail for a while.
> ? Your mail will be dealt with when I return.
> .
> from postfix/sendmail logs:
> 
> ...sniff
> ?(delivered to command: /usr/bin/vacation alydio.mc)
> 
> after this nothing will happened... no errors.... no warnings...? 
> 
> However the one I installed from ports (/usr/local/bin/vacation) works fine.
> 
> 
> I want to use the freebsd base vacation program.? 
> 
> Please help.
> 
> Thank you,
> alydiomc
> 
> 
>       

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