On 24 Sep 2001, at 11:54, Dean Staff wrote:
[snip]
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Ok, I'm back at work and had a chance to do some testing
I'm back at work (ie off vacation) now myself.
> I installed new userpanel package and that seems to be working fine.
>
> But I did have the same problem that Richard Ford had....Vaction did not work. (or
>more
> preciously, Stopped working)
>
> I did some digging and saw a few permission errors in the /var/log/messages
I don't think these were related to the vacation program at all
(looked like an LDAP problem?). Check the /var/log/qmail/current
file for email delivery related logs.
> So I cd'd to the test user Homedir I was working with and noticed 2 .vacation files
> .vacation.db with owned by the user and
> .vacation.msg owned by root user and group admin
Those permissions are correct. The .vacation.msg file is written by
the web interface and only has to be readable by the user. It
contains the actual auto-reply message.
The .vacation.db file is written to by the vacation program and is
used to keep track of which addresses it has replied to. It will only
reply to the same adress once in any given week (the default time
period).
> I did a chown to root:admin for .vacation.db and vacation started working again.
>Just to make sure
> I did a chown back to dean:dean (the user) and vacation stopped again.
>
> I then did a full uninstall of all three packages. Removed the 2 .vacation files and
>then re-installed
> the 3 packages. Everything appeared to be working. I enabled vacation for my test
>user again.
> (From the User-panel) and I sent 1 test message to it. I got the approriate
>response.
>
> I then disabled it and re-enabled it and is stopped working again.
This is how the vacation program is supposed to work. If you sent
a message to the test user from another email account or if you
sent it a message after a week had elapsed you'd get a response.
Do you think that a week is too long for the vacation program to
wait until replying to additional messages from the same source?
I could make it a setting that can be change either globally or per-
user when setting the vacation message text.
Cheers,
Daniel van Raay
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