"autoreply" mail problem postfix

rov3 · 05-13-2004, 06:15 AM

I have a problem with my postfix in combination with autoreply...
I downloaded a program called "autoreply-1.2" and set it up, but it only replys my mail ones...

When i send a mail to the specific user, it gives an automated reply as like how i installed it, but then when i try it again it won't work, there is no answer. When i checked the log for fault i didn't find anything wrong...
The same problem with "vacation", only one time i got an answer...

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Postfix

Thanx...

Linux_in_NH · 05-13-2004, 10:10 AM

Sounds like things are working as expected. I am not familiar with autoreply, but I know that vacation will cache a list of addresses that it has already notified of your status and will not resend the message again (so as to be a nice net citizen).

To clear the 'cache' for vacation, look in $HOME and delete the .vacation.cache file.

Looks you you can do the same for autoreply by deleting $HOME/.autoreply/histfile

rov3 · 05-13-2004, 11:53 AM

rov3 · 05-13-2004, 11:55 AM

Is it possible then to overrule this mechanism, and NOT to "cache a list of addresses"?
I want to use the auto-reply or vacation to receive information about the system utilization, not really for telling somebody i'm not there... So i will send mail to the alias often from the same address/sender...

Linux_in_NH · 05-13-2004, 12:10 PM

Looking at the man page for vacation, I see that if you run it with '-t1s' it will only remember entries for 1 second (pretty much disabling it).

As for autoreply, it appears that '-i 1' will cause it to 'forget' once per minute

rov3 · 05-13-2004, 06:04 PM

That did the trick. It works how i want it to work... Thank you very much for your quick reaction, thanx...