Hi Guys... just wondering if any of you managed to get vacation working with .forward,
.forward seems to work for simple email addresses but when i have the following in I have created a .forward and .vacation.msg in the user tomothy home directory (in /home/tomothy the contents of the .forward is \tomothy , "|/usr/bin/vacation -a tom.smyth tomothy" my aliases file contains the following tom.smyth : tomothy But I cant seem to get vacation to send responding mails... I think it is being called when a mail is received but vacation seems to complain about the syntax the contents of /var/log/messages Feb 1 21:12:29 ilb vacation: uid 1002: usage: vacation [-i] [-a alias] login Feb 1 21:21:14 ilb vacation: uid 1002: usage: vacation [-i] [-a alias] login Feb 1 21:22:47 ilb last message repeated 7 times Feb 1 21:31:57 ilb last message repeated 11 times Feb 1 21:43:22 ilb last message repeated 44 times Any help would be appreciated... -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth Mobile: +353 87 6193172 --------------------------------- PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE YOU PRINT THIS E-MAIL This email contains information which may be confidential or privileged. The information is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify me by telephone or by electronic mail immediately. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, not the company's .This email does not constitute either offer or acceptance of any contractually binding agreement. Such offer or acceptance must be communicated in writing. You are requested to carry out your own virus check before opening any attachment. Thomas Smyth accepts no liability for any loss or damage which may be caused by malicious software or attachments.
