From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 15 20:01:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4333116A4CE for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:01:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from therion.astral-on.net (therion.astral-on.net [193.41.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3761543D2D for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:01:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ad@astral-on.net) Received: from odin.astral-on.net (odin.astral-on.net [193.41.4.6]) i8FK16jp069351 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:01:06 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ad@astral-on.net) Received: from odin.astral-on.net (localhost.astral-on.net [127.0.0.1]) by odin.astral-on.net (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i8FK16FK024184 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:01:06 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ad@odin.astral-on.net) Received: (from ad@localhost) by odin.astral-on.net (8.12.8p2/8.12.8/Submit) id i8FK15Fv024183 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:01:05 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:01:05 +0300 From: Andrew Degtiariov To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040915200105.GB15361@astral-on.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:04:37 +0000 Subject: Re: help needed for vacation(1) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ad@astral-on.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:01:39 -0000 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