Hi Mike,
I don't have any experience with Exim's built-in Vacation driver, but we
use /usr/bin/vacation and it works for us.
On Tue, 1 Oct 2013, Mike Ridgers wrote:
> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
>
> pipe to |/usr/bin/vacation -a bobm
> generated by bob@???
> local delivery failed
>
> The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:
>
> ------ pipe to |/usr/bin/vacation -a bobm
> generated by bob@??? ------
>
> usage: vacation [ -I ]
> or: vacation [ -j ] [ -a alias ] [ -h hostname ] [ -tN ] [ -r ] login
>
> This seems to be saying that the vacation command failed. However I
> can't work out why - the syntax of the .forward file seems OK to me ?
>
> "|/usr/bin/vacation -a bobm"
No, if you include -a it must be followed by an alias, AND you must have a
login name at the end.
If you have no aliases, and the user's login name is "bobm", then it
should look like:
"|/usr/bin/vacation bobm"
If you have an alias, let's say "bob", it should look like this:
"|/usr/bin/vacation -a bob bobm"
Don't forget that you must initialise the vacation database (with vacation
-i or -I) to create .vacation.db, otherwise vacation will also refuse to
run, and you'll still get a bounce message.
> The other (realtively minor) issue is that when the auto reply comes
> back I get "From: bob@???; on behalf of; bob@???" as
> the server is on a different domain from the email domain. Is there a
> way to fix this I wonder ?
With /usr/bin/vacation you can include a "From: Bob M <bobm@???>"
line in your .vacation.msg file, in the headers section (between the top
of the file, and the first blank line), and this overrides the
automatically generated From: header.
Cheers, Chris.
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