Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:43:22 -0700 From: Jamie Lawrence <jal@ThirdAge.com> To: ops <ops@mail.online-tech.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vacation program as autoresponder Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981015124322.00a44b60@204.74.82.151> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981015133214.215A-100000@mail.online-tech.co m>
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At 01:36 PM 10/15/98 +0000, ops wrote: >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 Check your syslog. Assuming sendmail is logging enough info, it should probably tell you what'd going on. Two common problems with setting up vacation: incorrect permission/ownership on the .forward and the fact that vacation uses 'real' UID instead of effective UID to generate the forwards. So if you're setting up a vacation for user blarg and su to root and then to blarg, vacation will write the .forward to send the mail to your UID, not blarg's. -j To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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