[BlueOnyx:25533] Re: 5210R: vacation reply

[oldcabin webmaster]

I had my dates set wrong. 2020 :-(

All works well now that the dates are set correctly

Thanks

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 9:34 PM Michael Stauber <mstauber at blueonyx.it> wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> >> rm /etc/smrsh/vacation.pl  <http://vacation.pl>
> >> ln -s /usr/local/sbin/vacation.pl  <http://vacation.pl>  /etc/smrsh/
> vacation.pl  <http://vacation.pl>
> >
> > Yeah, that takes care of it. The problem usually happens if someone
> installs a
> > bad OpenWebmail PKG, or installs OpenWebmail from the sources.
> OpenWebmail's
> > vacation.pl  <http://vacation.pl>  conflicts with the one from both
> BlueQuartz and BlueOnyx.
> >
> >
> > Does this fix apply for 7/26/2022 - 5210R ?
>
> No, there never was an OpenWebmail for 5210R and this "fix" is so
> ancient that it no longer applies.
>
> If you do have problems with Vacation messages, then the way to start to
> look at it is to run a tail on /var/log/maillog and /var/log/messages,
> email to the account in question and see what messages pop up in the log.
>
> You can also open /usr/local/sbin/vacation.pl in an editor and change
> the line ...
>
> $DEBUG = "0";
>
> ... near the top of it to ...
>
> $DEBUG = "1";
>
> ... to get more information in /var/log/messages to really see what's
> going on.
>
> The typical issues these days are that people don't take into account
> that vacation messages are ONLY sent to senders once a week. So if
> someone sends you an email first time around, then that sender gets a
> vacation message. Then he can email you as often as he wants, he won't
> get another one until a week has passed. There is a small database that
> keeps track of sender email addresses and timestamps. This database is
> in the home directory of every user where vacation messages are active.
>
> Let me know if you need any more help with this.
>
> --
> With best regards
>
> Michael Stauber
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