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From: Aled Treharne <taff@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk>
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To: "Jay M. Richmond" <jayrich@room101.sysc.com>
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Subject: Re: qmail and vacation in 2.2-stable
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On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Jay M. Richmond wrote:
> Has anyone gotten qmail and vacation to work properly together?
> When I follow the documentation, putting |/usr/bin/vacation user
> in .qmail,

Hi there.

In the Qmail docs somewhere (the man page I think) it tells you that you
need a line like this in your .qmail file:

| preline /usr/bin/vacation -r infinite -a felix taff

The preline bit is what tells qmail that you're piping into a program,
since it only adds the From line on final delivery. -r is something about
how many times it will reply to each message - perversely the option here
means it will only reply once to a message from  any user. The -a option
specifies alternate usernames for me, so it doesn't send myself a
message! :)

Hope this helps,

- -Taff.
	  	   Aled Treharne		felix@royal.net
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