Author: Nico Erfurth Date: To: David Chait CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] UCB Vacation or other Autoresponder
David Chait wrote: > Good point, ok I must be blind. That definitly got me farther along, however
> it's still not doing what I was hoping. The mail goes through properly as
> shown below:
>
> 2002-11-07 14:14:09 189uuf-0000j1-00 <= davidc@???
> H=bonair.stanford.edu [171.64.236.22] P=esmtp S=1591
> id=087501c286a2$6a9b45e0$44db42ab@FOPSSAFETYLAP
> 2002-11-07 14:14:09 189uuf-0000j1-00 => davidc
> <davidc@???> R=localuser T=local_delivery
> 2002-11-07 14:14:09 189uuf-0000j1-00 => davidc
> <davidc@???> R=vacation T=vacation_transport
> 2002-11-07 14:14:09 189uuf-0000j1-00 Completed
>
> However no reply is sent to the sender... the wierd part of this is I don't
> see anything in the logs to signal a problem..
The mail is piped to vacation, so it's out of exim's range. Your problem
now lies in vacation, not in exim anymore, but as Miquel pointed out,
you should use exim's builtin autoreply.