On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 10:31:23AM +0200, > Tomasz Papszun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're right about the problem but you *can* use preline with vacation. > > The trick is needed: > > > > | preline sh -c '/usr/bin/vacation peter; cat > /dev/null' > > > > (I got it probably from the qmail list). It works, I used it. I sent > > myself a message sized a couple of MB to make sure :-) . > > It might be better to change the vacation program to get the envelope > sender information from the environment rather than the from line. > If the envelope sender address has a space in it, it will be corrupted > when it is put in the from line. This would also save running preline > and cat for each mail delivery. My vacation program gets that info from the environment provided by qmail. It does NOT need the UUCP style "From user@place" header that sendmail vacation programs rely on. That's why you don't need preline with my vacation program. Regards Peter ---------- Peter Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Consultant or at present: eServ. Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +61 2 9206 3410 Fax: +61 2 9281 1301 "If you kill all your unhappy customers, you'll only have happy ones left"
