On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Henri J. Schlereth wrote:
> > Fair enough. However, you'll find that you'll get better help from the
> > qmail list people (myself included) if you define things such as
> > "failed". Without details that could be anything from
> >
> > - causes the machine to catch on fire
> > - something in between
> > - does nothing
>
> Failed in this instance was a signal 11 on postfix (2 machines)
> and a signal 213 on sendmail (2 machines)
>
> > You'll see this problem if you try to use the sendmail version of
> > vacation. Use Peter's vacation program instead. [ Peter Samuel]
>
> Ahh, but I cant use someone else's version of vacation because I am
> assisting the current maintainer of the sendmail vacation (Sean Rima)
> with debug testing on RedHat machines. That is precisely why I was
> trying to find out if anyone else had/wanted to use this with
> qmail. Again a matter of not inventing the wheel. There also appear to
> be some 50% Slackware people who are also seeing this problem and we
> are trying to narrow it down. The maintainer has run both postfix and
> sendmail on a Suse box w/o problemsi with vacation.
And this is precisely what you didn't tell us before :) If you'd told
us that, I wouldn't have suggested using my qmail-vacation.
>
> My first test with qmail results in the following:
>
> <\feral, "|vacation feral"@rock.neandertal.org>:
> Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
>
> This is actually a copied .forward -> .qmail so I really didnt expect
> it to work. I just wanted to see the first error.
.forward and .qmail have completely different formats. See
/var/qmail/man/man5/dot-qmail.5 for details.
Your .qmail file should say
&feral
| preline sh -c 'vacation feral; cat > /dev/null'
Regards
Peter
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