[BlueOnyx:17933] Re: Vacation Message Not Working

[Jeff Keller]

That did it David!!!  I think I need to treat YOU to a cold beer!  Thank
you so much.

Hey Michael--could we add this to the default config so that it doesn't get
overwritten by updates?

Jeff

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 7:20 PM, David Thacker <David at thackernet.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
>
>
> Good news: I found where I had documented the solution for this, which I
> had worked out back in November. I’ve applied this fix to my BX5107 server
> again, and tested it just now to confirm it is working.
>
>
>
> Find this around line 108 in /usr/local/sbin/vacation.pl:
>
>
>
> ## Check for @ and extract email address, if any
>
> if ($sendto !~ /@/i)                          { exit;         }
>
> elsif ($sendto =~ /[\w_\.\-]+[@%][\w_\.\-]+/) { $sendto = $&; }
>
> else                                          { exit;         }
>
>
>
> And comment that code out like this:
>
>
>
> ## Check for @ and extract email address, if any
>
> ##DT 2014-11-23 - remark this out so that email delivered through
>
> ##PostLayer (mx25.net) goes back to correct sender address
>
> #   if ($sendto !~ /@/i)                          { exit;         }
>
> #   elsif ($sendto =~ /[\w_\.\-]+[@%][\w_\.\-]+/) { $sendto = $&; }
>
> #   else                                          { exit;         }
>
> ##DT
>
>
>
> That’s it, problem resolved. Treat yourself to a cold beer...
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> David Thacker
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Jeff Keller [mailto:jeff at datatune.com]
> *Sent:* June-28-15 10:28 PM
> *To:* David at thackernet.com; BlueOnyx General Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [BlueOnyx:17923] Re: Vacation Message Not Working
>
>
>
> Thanks David.  You must have used a different syntax because I wasn't able
> to get your suggestion to work (and I'm not familiar enough with that file
> to figure it out on my own).
>
>
>
> Maybe somebody else on this list has a suggestion for changing
> /usr/local/sbin/vacation.pl to ensure that the reply-to address doesn't
> get incorrectly changed when using the vacation message and SRS encoding.
> Perhaps the default settings in BlueOnyx aren't honoring the appropriate
> SRS encoding??? (I'm grasping for solutions, to be honest).
>
>
>
> If it would help others on the list, here's a section of the vacation.pl
> file which likely contains the item which needs to be changed--I just don't
> know "to what":
>
>
>
> ---------------
>
>
>
> {
>
>
>
>     #if    (/^From:\s*(.+)/)        { $from = $1;       }
>
>     if    (/^From\s+(\S+)/)        { $from = $1;       }
>
>     elsif (/^Reply-To:\s*(.+)/)    { $replyto = $1;    }
>
>     elsif (/^Sender:\s*(.+)/)       { $sender = $1;     }
>
>     elsif (/^Return-path:\s*(.+)/)  { $returnpath = $1; }
>
>     elsif (/^Precedence:\s*(.+)/)   { $precedence = $1; }
>
>     elsif (/^\tfor\s+(\S+)/)        { $for = $1;        }
>
>     #elsif (/^$crlf/)                { goto breakloop    }
>
>     elsif (/^$crlf/)                { last;             }
>
>
>
> }
>
>
>
> -----------------
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 8:01 AM, David Thacker <David at thackernet.com>
> wrote:
>
> Greetings Jeff,
>
> I faced this same issue back in November, see BlueOnyx:16496
>
> I did resolve it at the time by editing vacation.pl. Here's the sad part:
> it seems like I did not save that modified copy anywhere except on the
> server, nor did I seem to document the changes anywhere except in that
> modified file, and now I see the modified vacation.pl was overwritten on
> June 16th!
>
> I *think* I just ended up making a change like this:
>
> elsif ($returnpath)  { $sendto = $returnpath;  }
>
> to
>
> elsif ($returnpath)  { $sendto = $sender;  }
>
> but I can't be sure without working through it and testing again.
>
> I do remember that the basic problem was that the reply was going to the
> Return-Path but the return path is not valid on the encoded emails.
>
> Regards,
>
> David Thacker
>
>
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