#1 Emails didn't get to the Inbox

[AMI]

I implemented the vacation mail responder on one of my postfix instances.
Unfortunately I discovered that the emails didn't get to the destination Inbox.

the content of .forward is:
\root, "|/usr/bin/vacation adina.gabrov"

What I did wrong?

Thank you very much,
Alin Ilie

[Chris Samuel]

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Vacation will only send emails in that case when the To: address contains adina.gabrov, in other words if you've got emails going to adina@example.com it will not respond.

Does that make sense ?

If you have multiple addresses that you want it to respond to being delivered to that mailbox you need to use the -a option to add other aliases.

Good luck!

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I am pretty sure that there were e-mails addressed directly to the mentioned user.
I will re-check the issue and I will let you know.

Thanks,
Alin

[Chris Samuel]

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Any luck ?

I've just released 1.2.7.0 in case that helps.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3852&package_id=3820&release_id=611078

[Chris Samuel]

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Did you have any luck ?

I've just released Vacation 1.2.7.0 too, if that helps ?

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3852&package_id=3820&release_id=611078

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Hi Cris,

I have similar issue as 'Nobody'. Vacation (1.2.7.0) is invoked with "vacation -I" and .forward reads: "|/usr/bin/vacation -a email@somemail.com username".

The reply is sent but the email to "username" disappears. Am I doing something completely wrong?

Postfix and Red Hat Linux.

Best regards,
Esben

[Chris Samuel]

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Hi Esben,

Looks like your .forward file isn't right - did you create that yourself ?

If you just run "vacation" (with no arguments) it should make that file for you once you've edited your vacation message with the right syntax.

FWIW mine looks like:

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

Your .forward file only has the second part, which puts the email into the vacation program, it's the first part that actually delivers the email to your inbox!

Best of luck,
Chris