From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 10 15:53:12 2002 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 D918E37B401 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:53:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (f120.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE3243E54 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:53:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thierryblack@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:53:06 -0700 Received: from 207.195.92.134 by lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 22:53:06 GMT X-Originating-IP: [207.195.92.134] From: "Thierry Black" To: philip@adhesivemedia.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .vacation: Permission denied Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:53:06 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Jul 2002 22:53:06.0938 (UTC) FILETIME=[8E5215A0:01C22864] 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 could be wrong, but there might be two issues... > >- you might have a circular alias going on there... No. Not happening here. >-Also, by putting it in /etc/mail/aliases, it might be running as root, >not as the user thierry which could be the problem. That could definitely be a problem. Is there a workaround? >What happens if you >put the vacation stuff into your .forward file? ~/.forward is ignored because the server uses cyrus for local delivery. Thats why I used aliases. am I hooped? Does anyone know if cyrus has any kind of built in autoresponder? thierry >good luck! > >On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Thierry Black wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Im trying to use the vacation program to set up an autoresponder. First >I > > did "vacation -i", and it created ~/.vacation.db (64KB). The home >directory > > is 0755. I created the following .vacation.msg, 0644: > > > > From: thierry@domain.com > > Subject: Out of the office > > > > Out of the office. > > > > Then in /etc/mail/aliases I put > > > > thierry: "|/usr/bin/vacation thierry", thierry > > > > I still get messages delivered to me, but the vacation program does not >want > > to work: > > > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > > "|/usr/bin/vacation thierry" > > (reason: data format error) > > (expanded from: ) > > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > > vacation: .vacation: Permission denied > > 501 5.6.0 Data format error > > > > Whats with ".vacation: permission denied"? Is .vacation supposed to >exist? > > I could not find any reference to this. > > > > My maillog shows basically the same thing as above. > > > > Im using sendmail plus cyrus for lacal delivery. > > > > thierry > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message