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Eric Rostetter eric.rostetter@physics.utexas.edu
Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:56:10 -0500


Quoting Nate Mollring <nmollring@cennecs.org>:

> I use an e-smith distro with qmail/procmail.

Never dealt with this, so I'd need your help, or someone else using this,
to hash out an answer.

> vacation message.  My other vacation program puts the 'stuff' for vacation
> into the .qmail file.

Can you share with us exactly what it puts in the .qmail file?

> How can I get this to work with the Horde vacation--it would
> be nice if all my user could do their own vacation via Horde.

Well, if the stuff it puts in .qmail is the same stuff we put in .forward,
then it should be a simple change of filename.  This is, unless there is
other stuff in .qmail also that we can't mess with.  

There may also be some config items in qmail you can set?  For example,
courier uses a .courier file, but you can get around this in the following
way:

COURIER NOTES:
--------------
I'm told this module will work okay with courier if you add the line

|| dotforward

to the user's .courier file.  Otherwise courier won't use the .forward file.
So, an example .courier file might contain:

|| dotforward
./Maildir

Maybe there is a similar feature for qmail???

> thanks,

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Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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