Sendmail - Question about VACATION program

[stavros]

I am running sendmail in a single box (Red Hat and I have created many user accounts in it. What I am trying to do is when an email is sent to a particular account, the vacation program will send an auto-reply saying that the mail account will not be read for some time.

I have created the .vacation.db and .vacation.msg files. I have also created a .forward file for the home directory of the account that will be " on vacation"

my .forward file is
\my_user_name
|"usr/bin/vacation my_user_name"

Still, when I send an email to my_user_name, no vacation message is auto-replied.
Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong??

[cjl7]

Hi,

Does /usr/bin/vacation exist?

If it does you can do a "vacation username" (i think) and it will prompt you for the message and set up your .forward...)


//jonas