From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 14 6:22: 5 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 0275337B401 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 06:22:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from diana.northnetworks.ca (att-ws20.switchview.com [216.13.70.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14D4D43F3F for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 06:22:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from iaccounts@northnetworks.ca) Received: from localhost (iaccounts@localhost) by diana.northnetworks.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h2EELxu69907; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:21:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from iaccounts@northnetworks.ca) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:21:59 -0500 (EST) From: IAccounts To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Ben=20Craig?= Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Email Auto-responders with Vacation In-Reply-To: <20030314130748.30729.qmail@web13801.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20030314092121.D66869-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 > 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. # /usr/bin/vacation -i Should initialize the vacation program. Steve > > Regards, > > Ben Craig. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts > http://uk.my.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message