From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 15 11:31:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06287 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:31:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from c2.ciena.com (c2.ciena.com [204.240.57.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06279 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:31:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dshapter@ciena.com) Received: by c2.ciena.com (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4-8.0) id OAA17824; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 14:31:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199810151831.OAA17824@c2.ciena.com> Received: from mercury(38.254.48.45) by c2.ciena.com via smap (V2.0) id xma017787; Thu, 15 Oct 98 14:30:56 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: ops cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Doug Shapter Organization: CIENA Corporation Subject: Re: vacation program as autoresponder In-Reply-To: Message from ops of "Thu, 15 Oct 1998 13:36:38 -0000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 14:30:56 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am setting up the vacation program to use as an autoresponder. I have > followed the steps in the man page for vacation. The mail is recieved but > no response is sent. as a test I setup a .forward file with just another > email address. the emails are not being forwarded to the other address > Any help would be appreciated > > Andy Thornbranch > Andy; Are you running sendmail on your machine to process mail? Or are you connecting to some other mail server to get your mail (for instance, using a pop3 interface). If you are not using sendmail, then .forward will have no effect. Hope this helps. (opinions are my own, etc...) -- Doug Shapter CIENA Corporation dshapter@ciena.com Senior Engineer Linthicum, MD 410-694-8118 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message