Antw: Re: Vacation: Sendmail 8.12.8 & Cyrus 2.1.11

[Roger Grosswiler]

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Roger Grosswiler

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>>> John Alton Tamplin <jtampli at sph.emory.edu> 04/22 4:16  >>>
Roger Grosswiler wrote:

>i try hard to get up and running vacation on my sendmail/cyrus-configuration. So i downloaded the vacation-programm, installed it, got my files in my directories...and nothing works...how should it, as my linux does not now, when it has to start the vacation program.
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>Does anybody know:
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>-the params needed in sendmail
>-eventually need params for cyrus
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>...if i do not want to use sieve!
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>A rookie (how i feel @ the moment after days of research) appreciates any help! thx community!
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If you don't want to use sieve for vacation (which I recommend, we 
switched from the old-style vacation to sieve's vacation and everyone is 
much happier), the normal setup is to set the user's .forward file to 
deliver to the vacation program.  There is nothing in cyrus for vacation 
in that case, since it is handled before cyrus gets the message for 
delivery.  See the documenation for vacation.

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John A. Tamplin                               Unix System Administrator
Emory University, School of Public Health     +1 404/727-9931


so, this would mean, if my sendmail finds in the users directory a .forward-file containing \rogerg, "|/usr/bin/vacation rogerg" it should normally execute the vacation program? thats what i expected, but it doesn't...so i thought, there must be more in the sendmail.cf or somewhere in cyrus....