[TriLUG] Vacation message bounces

Lee Fickenscher elfick at mac.com
Fri Aug 4 13:44:03 EDT 2006


In that case I blame Mandriva... If for no other reason than their  
horrible name.
BTW, did you check the system log? My man page says errors will be  
logged there and it may give you more information than what is  
bounced to postfix.
-Lee

On Aug 4, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Douglas Ward wrote:

> I tried creating the files manually in this format and it didn't work.
>
> On 8/3/06, Lee Fickenscher <elfick at mac.com> wrote:
>> The only difference I see from my working setup is that
>> your .vacation.db has 644 perms while mine has 600. Not sure why that
>> would make a difference though. What I would suggest would be to
>> delete .vacation.db and .forward. Then run "vacation -i" to
>> initialize the vacation db. After that recreate the .forward file  
>> with:
>>
>> \douglas, "|/usr/bin/vacation douglas"
>>
>> I'm not sure if the comma is needed for separation or if whitespace
>> is enough, but mine has commas. That being said, mine is running on
>> OBSD, but the example in my man page has a comma separating  
>> arguments.
>>
>> -Lee




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