On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 09:54:46PM +0000, Tom Smyth wrote: > Hi Guys... >
Hi, > just wondering if any of you managed to get vacation working with > .forward, > I don't manage to get vacations working altogether ;-) > .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... > I don't use vacation so I don't really know, I'll do a test tomorrow if you don't figure out till then, however I can tell you that this mailing list uses a similar construct so it should work -- Gilles Chehade https://www.poolp.org @poolpOrg -- You received this mail because you are subscribed to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send a mail to: [email protected]
