[BlueOnyx:05314] Re: Vacation Replies

Thu Sep 2 07:07:09 -05 2010

Jefrey,

Thanks for the experience.  Unfortunately, the hostname/domain I use on this
server is not used anywhere else on the system.  The client of mine has been
going crazy because they are so animate about using Vacation Reply.  I fear
I will be losing them soon.  I just don't know what's wrong.

-Rashid

On 9/2/10 4:33 AM, "Jeffrey Pellin" <jeffrey at px2co.net> wrote:

> 
> I'm sorry to jump in here if this has been going for some time but I also
> had a problem with vacation messages which is now sorted and I wonder if it
> was the same thing.
> 
> Basically I had a BO server host/domain name which was a sub domain of one
> of the sites on the server. I know now that this was a dumb move but at the
> time it was late and I'd run out of coffee and pizza ...
> 
> So my server was sub.mydomain.com and my site was www.mydomain.com.
> Vacation messages just would not go. We switched the urls so that server
> was www.mydomain.com and the site was sub.mydomain.com and everything
> worked.
> 
> We switched back and forth a couple of times (1 message a week makes
> testing really tricky) and it was clear that this was indeed the issue. I
> have absolutely no idea why, but sometimes in this world you just have to
> accept a gift without knowing where it comes from ;)
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jeffrey
> 
> On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:16:23 -0400, Abdul Rashid Abdullah
> <webmaster at muntada.com> wrote:
>> I know some time has passed but unfortunately due to a lot of traveling I
>> didn't want to raise this issue again unless I knew I could respond
>> quickly.
>> 
>> At this point, it appears that my efforts to fix the issue has only
>> resulted
>> in the fact that no reply is given what so ever.  I am aware that only
> one
>> reply will be given per week.  I do not see the .db file being created:
>> 
>> [root at baraka ronald]# ls -lasth
>> total 224K
>> 4.0K drwxrws--x 6 ronald site43 4.0K Sep  1 08:11 .
>> 156K -rw------- 1 ronald site43 149K Sep  1 08:11 mbox
>> 4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 ronald site43  132 Sep  1 08:10 .forward
>> 4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 ronald site43   28 Sep  1 08:10 .vacation_msg
>> 4.0K drwx--S--- 3 ronald site43 4.0K Jun 28 15:39 mail
>> 4.0K drwxr-sr-x 3 root   site43 4.0K Jun 27 00:37 ..
>> 4.0K drwxrwsr-x 2 ronald site43 4.0K Jun 27 00:37 web
>> 4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 ronald site43   24 Dec  5  2006 .bash_logout
>> 4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 ronald site43  191 Dec  5  2006 .bash_profile
>> 4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 ronald site43  124 Dec  5  2006 .bashrc
>>  20K -rw------- 1 ronald site43  17K May 20  2006 .pinerc
>>    0 -rw-r--r-- 1 ronald site43    0 Apr 25  2006 .addressbook
>> 4.0K -rw------- 1 ronald site43 2.3K Apr 25  2006 .addressbook.lu
>> 4.0K drwxr-s--x 2 ronald site43 4.0K Apr 21  2006 Network Trash Folder
>> 4.0K drwx--S--- 2 ronald site43 4.0K Apr 21  2006 Private
>> 
>> I am looking for some desperate assistance on this one.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/22/10 9:32 PM, "Abdul Rashid Abdullah" <webmaster at muntada.com>
> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks Michael for the explanation.  I appreciate it.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Rashid
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 7/22/10 6:44 PM, "Michael Stauber" <mstauber at blueonyx.it> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Abdul,
>>>> 
>>>>> I have been looking for an answer to this issue and found a suggestion
>>>>> to
>>>>> the run the following command:
>>>>> 
>>>>>  strings /usr/sbin/smrsh | grep ^/
>>>>> 
>>>>>  When I did that I found /etc/smrsh.
>>>> 
>>>> Yes. Sendmail will only "pipe" mails to executeables if the executable
>>>> in
>>>> question has been authorized for usage. To do that, you simply place a
>>>> symbolic link to the executeable in /etc/smrsh/
>>>> 
>>>>>  My shell interface shows the vacation.pl and the target in flashing
>>>>>  red.
>>>>>  There is no vacation.pl in that location
>>>> 
>>>> On a "stock" BlueOnyx you should have a symbolic link in /etc/smrsh
> that
>>>> points to /usr/local/sbin/vacation.pl
>>>> 
>>>> Additionally you should have another symbolic link in there for
>>>> Majordomo,
>>>> that points to ../../usr/local/majordomo/wrapper
>>>> 
>>>> So it ought to look like this:
>>>> 
>>>> [root at cbq /]# ls -la /etc/smrsh/
>>>> total 20
>>>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Mar 31 06:49 .
>>>> drwxr-xr-x 87 root root 12288 Jul 23 00:40 ..
>>>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    27 May  3 01:56 vacation.pl ->
>>>> /usr/local/sbin/vacation.pl
>>>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    33 Mar  3 21:40 wrapper ->
>>>> ../../usr/local/majordomo/wrapper
>>>> 
>>>>>  I am also noting that ../../usr/local/majordomo/wrapper is in red and
>>>>>  when
>>>>> I go to that directory, the wrapper file is in red.
>>>> 
>>>> That's fine. It is in red not because the link is broken, but because
>>>> the
>>>> target file is a SUID binary, which are shown in red by default.
>>>> 
>>>> If you still don't get vacation messages, then keep in mind that you
>>>> only
>>>> receive ONE vacation message per sender address per week. A small
>>>> database
>>>> will be kept in the users home directory that stores which email sender
>>>> already received a vacation message and how long ago that was.
>>>> 
>>>> If in doubt, go to the home directory of that user and delete the *.db
>>>> file
>>>> that lies directly in the home directory itself. It'll be recreated
> from
>>>> scratch next time around.
>>> 
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