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Date:      Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:15:14 -0600
From:      "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
To:        Ben Craig <bencraig@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Email Auto-responders with Vacation
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.20030314081514.01e3db00@sage-one.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030314130748.30729.qmail@web13801.mail.yahoo.com>

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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

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