sendmail vacation replies

[Ron Bombard]

When I use the vacation program, in the .forward file for user charlie2, I have:
\charlie2,"|/usr/bin/vacation charlie2"

But when I send him a message, I get an error email back with the following message:

----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 /home/charlie2/.forward: line 1: "|/usr/bin/vacation
charlie2" ... Address is unsafe for mailing to
programs


Any ideas? what am I doing wrong?

Ron

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi,

Could be down to presence of group write permissions on .forward file. If so, chmod it to 644 and try again.

Rgds, Robin.

[linuxfan]

Hi Ron,

change the file permissions for .forward in charlie's homedirectory to -rw-xr--r-- (644) or -rw-------(600)

-Regards
I am RU

[Ron Bombard]

it WAS the permissions. Thanks Robin & Ramesh.

[robin wells-meisner]

Hi Ron,
Where did you get your vacation package software? What sendmail ver. are you using it with? I ask because I would be interested in installing this for my users.
Thanks in advance!!
Robin