creation 'vacation progrm'

[Deepu Chakravarty]

Hi,
I am creating 'vaction program' in HPUX 11.11. when I send mail by the command 'mailx -s test deepu' it gives the following error and mail is not generating:
# mailx -s test deepu
this is a test mail
.
EOT
# /usr/home/deepu/.forward: line 1: "|/usr/bin/vacation deepu"... Address deepu is unsafe for mailing to programs
/dead.letter... Saved message in /dead.letter

My .forward is as following:
\deepu, "|/usr/bin/vacation deepu"
Permissions of the .forward file is as follows:
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 35 Feb 20 12:47 .forward

What could be the problem ?

[Muthukumar_5]

can you check this:

# id deepu

I hope that user id is not there in the system.

Else use as username@hostname.domainanmae.extension format.

--
Muthu

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi,

Do you have "deepu" in your system ? Just check out by, # grep -i "deepu" /etc/passwd.

If not, create user "deepu" and respective mail dirs and .forward too.

-Arun

[Deepu Chakravarty]

Yes, I have to use full username with domain name. Now mail is forwarding. But when enabling vacation program, how the hp server will do the autoreply. This is because emails to me will come from smtp NT server. How the autoreply will be effected? Please give the clarity.