Yes, I have .qmail set as:
| /usr/local/bin/Qvacation -t30s teststud
/var/mail/teststud
where Qvacation is your program...so I understand this to mean a 30 second
time frame.
Samuel
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Peter Samuel wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Samuel Dries-Daffner wrote:
>
> >
> > Well, we had heavy debugging on during these tests and there is no
> > indication of failure... its like the message gets piped to vacation and
> > thats it...NO failures, nothing. Seems like the outgoing message is not
> > generated at all, only for those selected email clients. When it
> > works it works and when it doesn't it just disappears (or so it
> > seems). Weird :>
> >
> > I'm not sure where to go from here...
>
> You do realise that if vacation sends a successful reply it will not
> send another one to the same address for a week. This is overridden by
> the command line option -t. From the man page.
>
> -tN Change the interval between repeat replies to the
> same sender. The default is 1 week. A trailing s,
> m, h, d, or w scales the number N to seconds,
> minutes, hours, days or weeks respectively. For
> example, to set the interval value to 3 days you
> would specify -t3d. There should be no spaces
> between the -t and N. This option is only useful
> when specified in the ~/.qmail file.
>
> So, if you're trying to generate a vacation message for every reply
> then the lowest granularity you can have is one second.
>
> What's in your .qmail file? If you use the default setup
>
> | /usr/local/bin/vacation username
> /home/psamuel/mailbox
>
> you'll get replies once a week. If you use this
>
> | /usr/local/bin/vacation -t1s username
> /home/psamuel/mailbox
>
> You'll get replies once per second.
>
> Regards
> Peter
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