From: Andreas Höschler (ahoesch@smartsoft.de)
Date: Fri Mar 02 2007 - 15:02:56 EST
Hi all,
thanks to
Kevin Prigge <klp@msi.umn.edu>
"Brad Morrison" <brad.morrison@gmail.com>
It appears that vacation is part of the sendmail package. Since I had
removed the original Solaris package I reinstalled from blastwave and
got this tool. However, it worked not as expected/documented ($SUBJECT
was not replaced, disabling sendmail service had no effect. The
sendmail process was kept alive anyway,...), so I finally decided to
throw the blastwave sendmail package away as well - I am using postfix
- and instead wrote my own vacation program in Objective-C that reads
from stdin, decodes the multimime mail, extracts subject, body, from,
to,... and then sends out the autoreply message via "/usr/lib/sendmail
-t". This took me only half an hour and gives me the maximum
flexibilty. I wrote another small gui application that allows the user
to comfortably fill .forward with stuff like
\<username>, \"|/opt/GNUstep/Local/Tools/vacation <username>"
and .vacation.msg with the message. Works great and all users are happy
now!
Thanks a lot!
Regards,
Andreas
>> this is probably a newbie question, but I am stuck nonetheless. I
>> would
>> like to let postfix send autoreplies for abscent users and found
>> vacation to be one way of doing this. I read "man vacation". However,
>> I caould not find this utility on my Solaris 10 box. "find / -name
>> vacation" gives mit
>>
>> /usr/ucb/vacation
>>
>> and that's a link to
>>
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 27 18:46
>> /usr/ucb/vacation
>> -> ../bin/vacation
>>
>> which does not exist. What am i missing? Is vacation part of the
>> sendmail packages? Then I might have removed it while installing
>> postfix. :-(
>>
>> I usually do
>>
>> pkgrm SUNWsndmu
>> pkgrm SUNWsndmr
>>
>> What can I do to get this utility back? Or what would be the best
>> approach to get autoreplies with postfix?
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