[TriLUG] Vacation message bounces

[Douglas Ward]

I tried creating the files manually in this format and it didn't work.

On 8/3/06, Lee Fickenscher <elfick at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 3, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Douglas Ward wrote:
> <snip>
> > 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.
>
> The only difference I see from my working setup is that
> your .vacation.db has 644 perms while mine has 600. Not sure why that
> would make a difference though. What I would suggest would be to
> delete .vacation.db and .forward. Then run "vacation -i" to
> initialize the vacation db. After that recreate the .forward file with:
>
> \douglas, "|/usr/bin/vacation douglas"
>
> I'm not sure if the comma is needed for separation or if whitespace
> is enough, but mine has commas. That being said, mine is running on
> OBSD, but the example in my man page has a comma separating arguments.
>
> -Lee
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