On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 10:31:23AM +0200, Tomasz Papszun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're right about the problem but you *can* use preline with vacation. > The trick is needed: > > | preline sh -c '/usr/bin/vacation peter; cat > /dev/null' > > (I got it probably from the qmail list). It works, I used it. I sent > myself a message sized a couple of MB to make sure :-) . It might be better to change the vacation program to get the envelope sender information from the environment rather than the from line. If the envelope sender address has a space in it, it will be corrupted when it is put in the from line. This would also save running preline and cat for each mail delivery.
