[sork] Ongoing vacation/forward problems

[dhammer at kdhtech.com]

Well i'm beginning to think that much of this had to do with the install
of Mandrake.  I had someone install the OS and I was setting up the web
stuff.  It has been a nighmare in every aspect.  There are user permission
problems gallore.  So I hacked through the code to create work arounds for
these problems.  Including setting up the tmp dir like I mentioned.  Also
I had to add a call to the vacation command with the "-I" flag after the
.vacation.msg file was updated just so it would take.  This is in addition
to setting up the sudo command to be able to run vacation as root from the
user nobody.

Never again will I use Mandrake or at least a server where someone else
has set Mandrake up.  Absolutely nothing works right on this box by
default.

> Quoting dhammer at kdhtech.com:
>
>> I've managed to beat up forwards enough to convince it to work.  I had
>> to
>> go into the lib/drivers directory and edit the forwards.php file and add
>>
>> $conf['tmpdir'] = "/tmp";
>
> This should be set in horde/config/conf.php, at least in CVS HEAD.  Don't
> have a release version to check right now, but I'd bet it might be in
> horde/config/horde.php in those?
>
>> I'm sure this is NOT the method for fixing this problem.  But the
>> variable
>
> Nope.
>
>> was empty and I have no idea where this should have been set so this is
>
> In your horde config file.
>
>> the only way I could think of to test it out.  It works for forwarding.
>
> Good, at least we know what the problem is, now it is just a matter of how
> to fix it.
>
>> But it doesn't work for vacation service.  When I send a test mail to
>> the
>> vacation serviced mail account I get an error message bounced back to
>> the
>> sending email account...
>>
>>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>> "|/usr/bin/vacation admin"
>>     (reason: Data format error)
>
> That is a totally different issue/problem.
>
>> with the additional error of...
>>
>> 501 5.6.0 Data format error
>
> Could be your files (.forward, .vacation*) have the wrong ownership or
> permissions, or could be they are the wrong format, or could be you didn't
> set up smrsh correctly.
>
>> Any ideas how I can properly get this working?
>
> Check the above.  Does vacation work if you set it up manually?  Does
> a "vacation -i" fix the problem?  Are the permissions/ownership correct on
> the files?