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sendmail vacation replies

 
Ron Bombard
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sendmail vacation replies

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
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons... for you are crunchy and taste like chicken.
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Robin Wakefield
Honored Contributor

Re: sendmail vacation replies

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
Honored Contributor

Re: sendmail vacation replies

Hi Ron,

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

-Regards
I am RU
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Ron Bombard
Frequent Advisor

Re: sendmail vacation replies

it WAS the permissions. Thanks Robin & Ramesh.
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons... for you are crunchy and taste like chicken.

Re: sendmail vacation replies

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