From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 14 6:15:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E93D37B401 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 06:15:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-65-71-135-137.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D9E43FA3 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 06:15:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (adsl-65-68-247-73.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.68.247.73]) by sage-one.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h2EEFBLl023170; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:15:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20030314081514.01e3db00@sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:15:14 -0600 To: Ben Craig , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: Re: Email Auto-responders with Vacation In-Reply-To: <20030314130748.30729.qmail@web13801.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=4.5 tests=IN_REP_TO,SPAM_PHRASE_02_03 version=2.44-sageamerules_v1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:07 PM 3.14.2003 +0000, Ben Craig wrote: >Hi, > >I'm trying to get an email auto-responder working >using vacation, but have hit a bit of a wall. > >I have the .forward file in the user's home directory >containing: > >\mikew, "|/usr/bin/vacation -r 1 mikew" > >(Where mikew is the login for this user) > >I have a .vacation.msg file available in the same >directory, and have also verified the path >/usr/bin/vacation is correct. > >But no vacation message... =/ Any suggestions would >be most appreciated. > >Regards, > >Ben Craig. Didi you "initiate" so that the databse will be built...?? Also, while doing this you must be logged in as that user. Further, unless you reset the default, it will ignore any email address repeats within a certain time span to prevent loops... forgotten how long, but "man vacation(1)" covers all of this... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message