Vacation + Sendmail + Cyrus

Sheridan · 10-22-2008, 01:55 PM

Hello,

I've tried to set up Vacation on my Linux box... The box runs Sendmail with Cyrus IMAP.

It works as far as creating .forward files and the rest, but when I send a letter to a user who's on "vacation", I have the following error message bounced back to me in email:

Code:

The original message was received at Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:36:56 -0500
from example.com [XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
|/usr/bin/vacation user_on_vacation
    (reason: 550 5.1.1 User unknown)
    (expanded from: <user_on_vacation@example.org>)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 5.1.1 /home/user_on_vacation/.forward: line 1: |/usr/bin/vacation user_on_vacation...
User unknown

I don't understand. I did everything according to what I remembered from earlier, but it seems that sendmail treats the vacation program referenced in the .forward file as a user, and not as a command... At least this is what it seems like.

Any ideas would be helpful at this point.

Thanks a bunch!

Sanford Stein · 09-07-2010, 03:28 PM

I'd like to resurrect this thread in the hopes of getting instructions on how to set up a vacation reply message on a Red Hat 5.5 system using sendmail and cyrus-imap (but NOT postfix, sieve, or dovecot).

Is it possible and, if so, how?

Thanks,
Sanford Stein
CyberTools Inc.