Vacation problem

Silvia Nieto Santos

18 Jul 2002 18 Jul '02

15:26

Hello, I have installed sendmail 8.12.4, I like to use vacation to respond automatically, I have created .forward and .vacation.msg. The file .forward is something like \username, "|/usr/bin/vacation username" When I send a messages to user, the sever don't respond automatically and in /var/log/mail appears the next message Jul 18 17:24:37 server vacation[21657]: vacation: .vacation: Unknown database type Can anybody help me? Thank you very much. Silvia Nieto Santos C.T.I Servicio Andaluz de Salud Tfno. +34 955 01 71 14 mailto:snieto@sc.sas.cica.es

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Mads Martin Joergensen

18 Jul 18 Jul

15:27

New subject: [SLE] Vacation problem

* Silvia Nieto Santos [Jul 18. 2002 17:26]:

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Hello, I have installed sendmail 8.12.4, I like to use vacation to respond automatically, I have created .forward and .vacation.msg.

The file .forward is something like

\username, "|/usr/bin/vacation username"

When I send a messages to user, the sever don't respond automatically and in /var/log/mail appears the next message

Jul 18 17:24:37 server vacation[21657]: vacation: .vacation: Unknown database type

Can anybody help me?

Did you read the manpage? [...] OPTIONS -I Initialize the .vacation.db file and start vacation. [...] -- Mads Martin Jørgensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J.

Silvia Nieto Santos

15:32

New subject: [SLE] Vacation problem

I have execute it but the file .vacation.db don't appear. Silvia Nieto Santos C.T.I Servicio Andaluz de Salud Tfno. +34 955 01 71 14 mailto:snieto@sc.sas.cica.es ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mads Martin Joergensen" To: Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 5:27 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Vacation problem

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* Silvia Nieto Santos [Jul 18. 2002 17:26]:

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Hello, I have installed sendmail 8.12.4, I like to use vacation to

respond automatically, I have created .forward and .vacation.msg.

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The file .forward is something like

\username, "|/usr/bin/vacation username"

When I send a messages to user, the sever don't respond automatically and in /var/log/mail appears the next message

Jul 18 17:24:37 server vacation[21657]: vacation: .vacation: Unknown database type

Can anybody help me?

Did you read the manpage?

[...] OPTIONS -I Initialize the .vacation.db file and start vacation. [...]

-- Mads Martin Jørgensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J.

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Jim Conner

20:47

New subject: [SLE] Vacation problem

Don't know how to fix the problem, but PLEASE unsubscribe from every mailing list. Otherwise, your vacation program will send an e-mail to the list for every e-mail sent, which will send another for the e-mail sent. You can see the infinite amount of e-mails that will get sent. Usually the mailing list server will stop it at a few hundred, but you will not be the most popular person on the list when you get back from vacation. Thank you, Jim On Thursday, July 18, 2002 10:26, Silvia Nieto Santos wrote:

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Hello, I have installed sendmail 8.12.4, I like to use vacation to respond automatically, I have created .forward and .vacation.msg.

The file .forward is something like

\username, "|/usr/bin/vacation username"

When I send a messages to user, the sever don't respond automatically and in /var/log/mail appears the next message

Jul 18 17:24:37 server vacation[21657]: vacation: .vacation: Unknown database type

Can anybody help me?

Thank you very much.

Silvia Nieto Santos C.T.I Servicio Andaluz de Salud Tfno. +34 955 01 71 14 mailto:snieto@sc.sas.cica.es

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Naurgrim

19 Jul 19 Jul

00:48

New subject: [SLE] Vacation problem

On Thursday 18 July 2002 16:47, Jim Conner wrote:

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Don't know how to fix the problem, but PLEASE unsubscribe from every mailing list. Otherwise, your vacation program will send an e-mail to the list for every e-mail sent, which will send another for the e-mail sent.

Actually - vacation is more intelligent than that. It keeps a database of who it has replied to, and will only do so once. However, it certainly is the "Right Thing"(tm) to un-sub' from all lists prior to vacation'ing.

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On Thursday, July 18, 2002 10:26, Silvia Nieto Santos wrote:

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Hello, I have installed sendmail 8.12.4, I like to use vacation to respond automatically, I have created .forward and .vacation.msg.

The file .forward is something like

\username, "|/usr/bin/vacation username"

When I send a messages to user, the sever don't respond automatically and in /var/log/mail appears the next message

Jul 18 17:24:37 server vacation[21657]: vacation: .vacation: Unknown database type

Remember that database I mentioned? You have to initialize it. /usr/bin/vacation -I then vacation will send one and only one response to any address, until you re-initialize it. -- The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

Mads Martin Joergensen

09:11

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* Naurgrim [Jul 19. 2002 02:43]:

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On Thursday 18 July 2002 16:47, Jim Conner wrote:

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Don't know how to fix the problem, but PLEASE unsubscribe from every mailing list. Otherwise, your vacation program will send an e-mail to the list for every e-mail sent, which will send another for the e-mail sent.

Actually - vacation is more intelligent than that. It keeps a database of who it has replied to, and will only do so once. However, it certainly is the "Right Thing"(tm) to un-sub' from all lists prior to vacation'ing.

Yes, also following in .procmailrc could help it: :0 chw * ^TO_mmj@mmj.dk | vacation mmj That way only if you're in the To: or Cc: field a vac message is sent. -- Mads Martin Jørgensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J.

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