This looks like
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2593
On Thu, 11 Apr 2024, Raphael Haas via Exim-users wrote:
Dear list,
I am running an exim4-daemon-heavy (4.90.1-1ubuntu1.10) and
in the context of a userforward "~/.forward" filter file using the vacation
command
if personal alias [email protected]
then
vacation from [email protected] subject "Out of office
notification"
endif
with no other options changed from the default values given in
https://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.90/doc/html/spec_html/filter_ch-exim_filter_files.html#SECTmail
especially the once option is still the original ".vacation" and citing from
the above link "If a once file is specified, it is used to hold a
database..." I understand the ".vacation" is expected to be a file -
while the user filter/vacation triggering message to
[email protected] is delivered without problems,
processing the vacation reply message I get this entry in the exim mainlog:
"...R=userforward T=address_reply defer (0): Failed to open db (v4.1+) file
.vacation when sending message from address_reply transport: Not a
directory"
Now that sounds like exim expects the filename ".vacation" to be a directory?
And after a lot of unfruitful research, I renamed the ".vacation" file in my
home directory and created an empty ".vacation" directory, and voila,
the vacation message gets delivered and a new ".vacation" db file is created
inside the new ".vacation" directory.
(which also rules out any possible problems with setting up the current or
home directories for the transport, obviously the action happens in the
expected place, i.e. the user home dir)
While this is nice in principle,
* I'd like to understand why the vacation filter command expects a directory
when it should (after all I read and understand) be a file.
* and I'd like to avoid having to change the vacation setup in each home-dir
of all the users.
Any hints and explanations would be highly welcome.
Some more background:
The setup ran fine for over 10 years before, the last working setup was with
exim 4.86.2-2ubuntu2.
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