I am running a postfix mail server with approximately 1200 mailboxes. Users access their mailboxes by using IMAP, POP3 or through the web (Squirrelmail). I would like for them to be able to forward their account and/or set an out of office message using Squirrelmail. Forwarding has proven to be glitchy but does work fairly well overall. The out of office assistant does not work. Postfix bounces all messages to the mailbox with the error message listed below (with all relevant information). According to the man file for vacation I have manually run vacation -I <username> for testing purposes. It looks like neither plugin is formatting the files properly. They do not appear to be creating the .vacation.db file either. Since I do not use cpanel, courier or qmail I am left with these two options. I abandoned both plugins and tried creating all of the files manually. Postfix is still bouncing the messages. I am stumped. I had hoped to manually create the files and then work backwards from there but nothing works. I did not find much in Google that was helpful. I would sincerely appreciate any advice.
Distribution: Mandriva 2006 Postfix version: 2.2.5 Squirrelmail version: 1.4.5 Vacation version: 1.2.6.1 Bounce error generated by postfix: Command died with status 1: "/usr/bin/vacation douglas" .forward file (as formatted by autoresponder plugin) "|/usr/bin/vacation douglas" .forward file (as formatted by vacation_local plugin) "|/usr/bin/vacation douglas" \douglas Manually created .forward file: \douglas "|/usr/bin/vacation douglas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] douglas]# ls -ahl /home/douglas total 88K drwxr-xr-x 6 douglas douglas 4.0K Aug 3 10:24 ./ drwxr-xr-x 1185 root root 20K Jul 27 13:34 ../ -rw------- 1 douglas douglas 61 Jul 16 12:58 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 douglas douglas 24 May 11 08:07 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 douglas douglas 191 May 11 08:07 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 douglas douglas 124 May 11 08:07 .bashrc drwxr-xr-x 2 douglas douglas 4.0K Jul 12 15:19 bkupexec/ -rw-r--r-- 1 douglas douglas 38 Aug 3 10:23 .forward drwx------ 3 douglas douglas 4.0K Aug 3 10:28 Mail/ -rw-r--r-- 1 douglas douglas 18 Jul 20 10:03 .mailboxlist drwxr-xr-x 2 douglas douglas 4.0K Jul 13 20:08 Pictures/ -rw-r--r-- 1 douglas douglas 3.8K May 11 08:07 .screenrc drwx------ 2 douglas douglas 4.0K May 11 08:07 tmp/ -rw-r--r-- 1 douglas douglas 12K Aug 3 10:24 .vacation.db -rw-r--r-- 1 douglas douglas 148 Aug 3 10:14 .vacation.msg -rw------- 1 douglas douglas 703 Jul 16 12:56 .viminfo -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
