From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Feb 24 21:31:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.qcislands.net (mail.qcislands.net [209.53.238.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E49DA37B400 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:31:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from [209.53.238.2] (helo=auth.qcislands.net) by mail.qcislands.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31 #2) id 16fDjH-000GHq-00 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:31:15 -0800 Received: from ccstore by auth.qcislands.net with local-rmail (Exim 3.22 #1) id 16fDjJ-0003P6-00 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:31:17 -0800 Received: from fisp by dick.ccstores.com with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16fDRJ-0001QP-00; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:12:41 -0800 From: fisp@ccstores.com (FreeBSD isp) To: Noah@oopz.com Subject: re:sendmail vacation Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailer: SCO Shell Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:12:41 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Subject: sendmail vacation >Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:46:25 -0800 >From: "Noah Davidson" >To: "FreeBSD-ISP List (E-mail)" >We have a sendmail server that has about 5000 accounts. The users do >not log in except for a few admins. I have set the users shells to >/sbin/nologin. I have some users that want auto responders for their >email addresses. I have been using the vacation program in conjunction >with the .forward files. This causes a problem since the vacation >program needs a valid shell. I have allowed logons to those few users. >I do not like this approach. Is there a way to not allow user logins >and use vacation. We are using sendmail 12.2.2 >Thanks >Noah Davidson exim can do this. much easier to configure than sendmail too. -- FreeBSD isp directly mailto:paz@qcislands.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message