[sork] vacation and .forward file

[Karl J. Smalley]

Did you re-initialize the .vacation.db 

login as test-empgen
type:

vacation -i


Quoting Eric DuMond <ericdumond at hotmail.com>:

> 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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