Hi, I'm using vacation with Red Hat Enterprise and Sendmail, I'm trying to use vacation, but instead of returning the vacation mail with the message, an error occurs and the following mail is received:
The original message was received at Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:59:45 -0400
from [10.1**.*.43]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|/usr/bin/vacation prueba2"
(reason: 1)
(expanded from: <prueba2@cre***ard.com.ve>)
One issue I know about is that vacation hard codes the path to the binary, is your copy of vacation actually in /usr/bin/ or has it been installed into /usr/local/bin/ instead ?
I don't use Sendmail (haven't since, erm, 1992) so I don't know if it could be something Sendmail specific such as a list of permitted mail handling programs I'm afraid.
If you are using bash can you let me know what "type vacation" says please ? If you use csh then can you report the result of "which vacation" instead ?
thanks!
Chris
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Found another reply [1] that suggests that you need to create a link to it in /etc/smrsh. I've also found another web page that discusses it in more detail [2].
Hi, I'm using vacation with Red Hat Enterprise and Sendmail, I'm trying to use vacation, but instead of returning the vacation mail with the message, an error occurs and the following mail is received:
The original message was received at Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:59:45 -0400
from [10.1**.*.43]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|/usr/bin/vacation prueba2"
(reason: 1)
(expanded from: <prueba2@cre***ard.com.ve>)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 1
--------------------------------------------------------
Reporting-MTA: dns; credicorreo.cre***ard.com.ve
Received-From-MTA: DNS; [10.140.0.43]
Arrival-Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:59:45 -0400
Content-Type: text/plain
Final-Recipient: RFC822; prueba2@cre***ard.com.ve
X-Actual-Recipient: X-Unix; |/usr/bin/vacation prueba2
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Unix; 1
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:59:45 -0400
This is the .forward:
\prueba2, "|/usr/bin/vacation prueba2"
christian.calderon@cre***ard.com.ve
Thanks for your help
One issue I know about is that vacation hard codes the path to the binary, is your copy of vacation actually in /usr/bin/ or has it been installed into /usr/local/bin/ instead ?
I don't use Sendmail (haven't since, erm, 1992) so I don't know if it could be something Sendmail specific such as a list of permitted mail handling programs I'm afraid.
If you are using bash can you let me know what "type vacation" says please ? If you use csh then can you report the result of "which vacation" instead ?
thanks!
Chris
Found another reply [1] that suggests that you need to create a link to it in /etc/smrsh. I've also found another web page that discusses it in more detail [2].
[1] - http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=1446963
[2] - http://www.akadia.com/services/automatic_email_answering.html
Good luck!
Chris