RE: [webmin-l] Vacation reply issues

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

Yes, that should work..
What gets logged in /var/log/mail or maillog when you send email to
those two addresses?

 - Jamie

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 13:01, dav...@da... wrote:
> There all setup as in virtualusertable
> 
> If I remember my mail setup correctly, that just pushes the e-mail to the
> user's regular e-mail location so should use the .forward file still.
> 
> David Coley
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web...@li...
> [mailto:web...@li...] On Behalf Of Jamie
> Cameron
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 3:42 PM
> To: web...@li...
> Subject: Re: [webmin-l] Vacation reply issues
> 
> 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
> 
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