[sork] vacation and .forward file

[Karl J. Smalley]

Quoting Eric DuMond <ericdumond at hotmail.com>:

Not an expert, but I have run into similar problems.  This problem here, has
noting to do with IMP and everything to do with the vacation program itself.
Vacation looks at the to address of incoming mail and will only send
auto-replies to "To: " addresses that include the account name directly
(test-empgen in your case) or an alias supplied with -a (not inlcuded in your
case). This is done to avaoid hit mailling lists,  etc. with a whole lot of
"Auto-replies".

So the message to test at empgen.com is not sent as a message sent specifically and
directly to the test-empgen account. 

If you sent a message to test-empgen at empgen.com, you would get a reply.

You can use better aliases: 
aliase contains username in it entirty:
example accountname is walker alias or e-mail address wallker uses is
"John.walker"  - in this case vacation would respond because the to address
matched or atleast part of the to: address macthed the whole username.

or you can add in a "-a option" into the sork vacation module. I had to do this
beacause we use and account name motif which does not translate very weel to
our account aliases.


> Hello,
> 
> I am having trouble with the .forward file on my mail server. When I tail 
> the syslog I see that the vacation program runs successfully. However I do 
> not get a return mail with the vacation message. The syslog message appears 
> like this:
> 
> Aug 23 09:37:22 ddcmail2 sm-mta[23581]: [ID 801593 mail.info] 
> i7NEbMZM023581: from=<edumond at ddci.net>, size=490, class=0, nrcpts=1, 
> msgid=<1093271891.2509.1.camel at laptop.ddci.net>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, 
> relay=[199.34.64.3]
> Aug 23 09:37:25 ddcmail2 sm-mta[23584]: [ID 801593 mail.info] 
> i7NEbMZM023581: to="|/usr/bin/vacation test-empgen", 
> ctladdr=<test at empgen.com> (1237/65534), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:03, 
> mailer=prog, pri=60672, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> Aug 23 09:37:25 ddcmail2 sm-mta[23584]: [ID 801593 mail.info] 
> i7NEbMZM023581: to=\\test-empgen, delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:00, 
> mailer=local, pri=60672, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> 
> There is no messge recorded in /var/adm/messges. Can anyone help me 
> understand what is going on please.
> 
> Eric DuMond
> 
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