I need help with setting up vacation with sendmail on Suse linux
 

Hello,
I recently was tasked with setting up an out of office responder for two users on a suse linux installation. I followed all relevant information that i could find on the net concerning vacation and i cant seem to get it to work

vacation is installed on the server and I created the .forward, .vacation.msg and .vacation.db files in the users home directory as instructed.
However when I send test mails, i do not get any replies. One observation I made is that while most of the tuts around suggest that users directories will be in /home, i observed that this server was setup such that users are set up in /data/home/. Is this a factor?
Sendmail is the mailserver in use.

Please any help I can get will be appreciated.

Thanks.

I had the same problem with Suse and solved it by adding the "-j" option in the vacation command. You have to edit .forward and make sure it looks like this:
Regards