[TriLUG] Vacation message bounces

[Chander Ganesan]

Douglas Ward wrote:
> I am running a postfix mail server with approximately 1200 mailboxes.  
> Users
> access their mailboxes by using IMAP, POP3 or through the web
> (Squirrelmail).  I would like for them to be able to forward their 
> account
> and/or set an out of office message using Squirrelmail.  Forwarding has
> proven to be glitchy but does work fairly well overall.  The out of 
> office
> assistant does not work.  Postfix bounces all messages to the mailbox 
> with
> the error message listed below (with all relevant information).  
> According
> to the man file for vacation I have manually run vacation -I 
> <username> for
> testing purposes.  It looks like neither plugin is formatting the files
> properly.  They do not appear to be creating the .vacation.db file 
> either.
> Since I do not use cpanel, courier or qmail I am left with these two
> options.  I abandoned both plugins and tried creating all of the files
> manually.  Postfix is still bouncing the messages.  I am stumped.  I had
> hoped to manually create the files and then work backwards from there but
> nothing works.  I did not find much in Google that was helpful.  I would
> sincerely appreciate any advice.
>
> Distribution: Mandriva 2006
> Postfix version: 2.2.5
> Squirrelmail version: 1.4.5
> Vacation version: 1.2.6.1
>
> Bounce error generated by postfix:
> Command died with status 1: "/usr/bin/vacation
>   douglas"

Does the manual page for vacation say anything about what exit code 1 is 
used for?  You might check the docs- it might be something fairly 
straightforward...
>
> .forward file (as formatted by autoresponder plugin)
> "|/usr/bin/vacation douglas"
>
> .forward file (as formatted by vacation_local plugin)
> "|/usr/bin/vacation douglas"
> \douglas
>
> Manually created .forward file:
> \douglas "|/usr/bin/vacation douglas"
>
> [root at clergymail douglas]# ls -ahl /home/douglas
> total 88K
> drwxr-xr-x     6 douglas douglas 4.0K Aug  3 10:24 ./
> drwxr-xr-x  1185 root    root     20K Jul 27 13:34 ../
> -rw-------     1 douglas douglas   61 Jul 16 12:58 .bash_history
> -rw-r--r--     1 douglas douglas   24 May 11 08:07 .bash_logout
> -rw-r--r--     1 douglas douglas  191 May 11 08:07 .bash_profile
> -rw-r--r--     1 douglas douglas  124 May 11 08:07 .bashrc
> drwxr-xr-x     2 douglas douglas 4.0K Jul 12 15:19 bkupexec/
> -rw-r--r--     1 douglas douglas   38 Aug  3 10:23 .forward
> drwx------     3 douglas douglas 4.0K Aug  3 10:28 Mail/
> -rw-r--r--     1 douglas douglas   18 Jul 20 10:03 .mailboxlist
> drwxr-xr-x     2 douglas douglas 4.0K Jul 13 20:08 Pictures/
> -rw-r--r--     1 douglas douglas 3.8K May 11 08:07 .screenrc
> drwx------     2 douglas douglas 4.0K May 11 08:07 tmp/
> -rw-r--r--     1 douglas douglas  12K Aug  3 10:24 .vacation.db
> -rw-r--r--     1 douglas douglas  148 Aug  3 10:14 .vacation.msg
> -rw-------     1 douglas douglas  703 Jul 16 12:56 .viminfo


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Chander Ganesan
Open Technology Group, Inc.
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