I guess it will be more clear when I put it on and have a look.
This is for a paid up live client and I do not want to (nor have the time to
chase bugs and problems) stuff them up.
So I am after the simplest and most effective in getting it to work with
minimal fuss and hacking - that is left for our own internal systems!
Do I need to download anything else apart from the 4.01 vacation mail
package?
Cheers,
Richard.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kidd, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Richard Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 12:02 AM
Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Vacation Mail
> sorry for my assumptions and resulting shorthand
>
> yes I used the existing package which uses Peter Samuel's qmail rewrite of
> a, the, Sendmail Vacation program, and which has about 3 or 4 switches
>
> the existing access for controlling Vacation, installed by the Vacation
> contrib package for e-smith, is through the Admin Panel. this is not
> commonly available to users I would guess. Users can access a web panel
to
> change their own password, and eventually I would like to set up a similar
> thing for Vacation. I think it is silly for the IT admin to spend their
> time, editing and turning on and off, users' autoreply (aka vacation)
> messages, so yes I would like to see controlled moved to userspace.
>
> the existing vacation package provides for different messages on users'
own
> schedules.
>
> I installed the contrib package under 4.0.x, and its behaviour was broken
by
> 4.1.x, but a search of the phorums suggested using the "-j" switch, which
> does make it work, but without some of the intelligence that the
> headers/aliases check provides ( -j disables checking for MAILER-DAEMON
and
> the like). On a whim I tried inserting preline after the pipe symbol (in
> the user's .qmail file) which relays email to the vacation program -
> although the docs say don't use preline, it works for me in that I can get
> rid of the "-j" switch (presumably obtuse-smtp in 4.1 added/subtracted
> something in the header?).
>
> The "-n" switch is documented better in the vacation docs, than I can
> explain here, but I am using its test for the existence of a message reply
> text to switch replies on and off, and using a symlink to put that message
> reply text file within the access of each individual user, so that they
> control their vacation reply.
>
> I don't know if this is more logical, from reading posts here, my
knowledge
> of these matters generally is less than yours so I was deferring to that
> knowledge, trying not to push mine too far past its limits :-)
>
--
Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues
Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
