Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:01:05 +0300 From: Andrew Degtiariov <ad@astral-on.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help needed for vacation(1) Message-ID: <20040915200105.GB15361@astral-on.net> In-Reply-To: <courier.4148983B.00000FAA@softhome.net> References: <courier.4148983B.00000FAA@softhome.net>
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 01:30:02PM -0600, ertank@softhome.net wrote: > Hi, > > I want to send a vacation notice to everybody who sends an e-mail to me. In > the mean time, I want to have this e-mail delivered in my box. I found that > vacation is on this purpose. Be informed that I am not very familiar with > .forward files. > > My .forward file contains below line: > \ek, "|/usr/bin/vacation ek" > > I get e-mails in my box. Problem is that my system do not send > ~/.vacation.msg as a reply. If I remove "\ek, " part in the .forward file. > It just reply to mail, and I loose the e-mail sent to me. > > I tried several combinations like: > --- > \ek > "|/usr/bin/vacation ek" > --- > "|/usr/bin/vacation ek" > \ek > --- > > None solved the problem. System either reply or deliver incoming mail to my > box. Any help is appreciated. As suggesion of your problem use "|/usr/local/bin/procmail" in your .forward and any actions do in .procmailrc. procmail is not part of the base system but you may install it from ports. -- Andrew Degtiariov DA-RIPE
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