[TriLUG] Vacation message bounces
Chander Ganesan
chander at otg-nc.com
Fri Aug 4 07:21:49 EDT 2006
Douglas Ward wrote:
> I am running a postfix mail server with approximately 1200 mailboxes.
> Users
> access their mailboxes by using IMAP, POP3 or through the web
> (Squirrelmail). I would like for them to be able to forward their
> account
> and/or set an out of office message using Squirrelmail. Forwarding has
> proven to be glitchy but does work fairly well overall. The out of
> office
> assistant does not work. Postfix bounces all messages to the mailbox
> with
> the error message listed below (with all relevant information).
> According
> to the man file for vacation I have manually run vacation -I
> <username> for
> testing purposes. It looks like neither plugin is formatting the files
> properly. They do not appear to be creating the .vacation.db file
> either.
> Since I do not use cpanel, courier or qmail I am left with these two
> options. I abandoned both plugins and tried creating all of the files
> manually. Postfix is still bouncing the messages. I am stumped. I had
> hoped to manually create the files and then work backwards from there but
> nothing works. I did not find much in Google that was helpful. I would
> sincerely appreciate any advice.
>
> Distribution: Mandriva 2006
> Postfix version: 2.2.5
> Squirrelmail version: 1.4.5
> Vacation version: 1.2.6.1
>
> Bounce error generated by postfix:
> Command died with status 1: "/usr/bin/vacation
> douglas"
Does the manual page for vacation say anything about what exit code 1 is
used for? You might check the docs- it might be something fairly
straightforward...
>
> .forward file (as formatted by autoresponder plugin)
> "|/usr/bin/vacation douglas"
>
> .forward file (as formatted by vacation_local plugin)
> "|/usr/bin/vacation douglas"
> \douglas
>
> Manually created .forward file:
> \douglas "|/usr/bin/vacation douglas"
>
> [root at clergymail douglas]# ls -ahl /home/douglas
> total 88K
> drwxr-xr-x 6 douglas douglas 4.0K Aug 3 10:24 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 1185 root root 20K Jul 27 13:34 ../
> -rw------- 1 douglas douglas 61 Jul 16 12:58 .bash_history
> -rw-r--r-- 1 douglas douglas 24 May 11 08:07 .bash_logout
> -rw-r--r-- 1 douglas douglas 191 May 11 08:07 .bash_profile
> -rw-r--r-- 1 douglas douglas 124 May 11 08:07 .bashrc
> drwxr-xr-x 2 douglas douglas 4.0K Jul 12 15:19 bkupexec/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 douglas douglas 38 Aug 3 10:23 .forward
> drwx------ 3 douglas douglas 4.0K Aug 3 10:28 Mail/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 douglas douglas 18 Jul 20 10:03 .mailboxlist
> drwxr-xr-x 2 douglas douglas 4.0K Jul 13 20:08 Pictures/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 douglas douglas 3.8K May 11 08:07 .screenrc
> drwx------ 2 douglas douglas 4.0K May 11 08:07 tmp/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 douglas douglas 12K Aug 3 10:24 .vacation.db
> -rw-r--r-- 1 douglas douglas 148 Aug 3 10:14 .vacation.msg
> -rw------- 1 douglas douglas 703 Jul 16 12:56 .viminfo
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Chander Ganesan
Open Technology Group, Inc.
One Copley Parkway, Suite 210
Morrisville, NC 27560
Phone: 877-258-8987/919-463-0999
http://www.otg-nc.com
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