From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 15 12:45:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17415 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:45:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stage1.thirdage.com (stage1.ThirdAge.com [204.74.82.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17379 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:45:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jal@ThirdAge.com) Received: from gigi (gigi.ThirdAge.com [204.74.82.169]) by stage1.thirdage.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA00658; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:40:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981015124322.00a44b60@204.74.82.151> X-Sender: jal@204.74.82.151 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:43:22 -0700 To: ops , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jamie Lawrence Subject: Re: vacation program as autoresponder In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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