[sork] vacation and .forward file

[Eric DuMond]

Karl,

Thanks for the input. I now have the following:

\test-empgen, "|/usr/bin/vacation -a test test-empgen" in the .forward file 
unfortunately I still have the same problem with the vacation message not 
returning to the original sender. Any thoughts?

Eric DuMond


>From: "Karl J. Smalley" <Karl.Smalley at mail.jci.tju.edu>
>To: Eric DuMond <ericdumond at hotmail.com>
>CC: sork at lists.horde.org
>Subject: Re: [sork] vacation and .forward file
>Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:15:00 -0400
>
>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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