[BlueOnyx:05312] Re: Vacation Replies

[Jeffrey Pellin]

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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