[horde] Vacation setting...

[Mike Peachey]

Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
>> Usually that means to do local delivery (final) to that address. Can  
>> you be more specific about the errors you see?
>     ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>      "|/usr/bin/vacation ashley"
>      (reason: Data format error)
>      (expanded from: <ashley at pcraft.com>)
> 
> 
>     As soon as I remove the back-slash, everything works as expected.  
> E-mail arrives, vacation message gets bounced back to the sender, and 
> everyone's happy.
> 

This would seem to be simply a poorly-configure mail server. As Chuck 
said, the standard method for doing direct delivery to a users mailbox 
is to add their username prepended by a backslash in a 
forwarding/delivery statement. Without the backslash, the username will 
be checked against all the transport agents again.

E.G. /etc/aliases contains "ashley:anthony"
"ashley" would deliver to anthony
"\ashley" would deliver to ashley.

It's clear that your mailserver is not complaining about the backslash 
per-se as it is complaining about the piped forward when a backslash is 
present. I can only say you should check your mail server configuration, 
or contact the relevant support channel for your mailserver software.
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Kind Regards,

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