Re: [webmin-l] Vacation reply issues

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 29/Oct/2005 03:24 dav...@da... wrote ..
> I have a client using Webmin 1.240
> 
> They use Vacation all the time due to an internal policy saying they need
> let the client know at least once a day that the person is going to be
> out
> of the office
> 
> Despite my recommendations against it (I hate vacation replies personally)
> the policy remains.
> 
> The issue is as follows:
> 
> User fred 
> 
> He has two e-mail addresses
> 
> ffl...@my...
> and an alias:  fre...@my... that points to fflinstone
> 
> E-mail being sent to fflinstone is being vacation replied properly.
> E-mail being sent to fred.flinstone is not being vacation replied.
> 
> Is there any way to fix this? Is it a bug in vacation or a configuration
> issue?
> 
> I know Vacation setups up aliases that put it through the vacation program,
> however it's worked in similar setups in the past.

How is this alias set up exactly? If it is set to \fflintstone in the /etc/aliases
file (called Mailbox of User fflintstone in Webmin), then this will bypass any 
.forward file that is used for an auto-responder..

However, an alias to ffl...@my... should work OK.

 - Jamie