vacation-list Mailing List for Vacation Mail Responder (Page 2)

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Sebastian Chociwski wrote:

> Hello,

Hello Sebastian,  sorry for the delay in getting back to you!

You tried to email the vacation-announce list which is only for announcemen=
ts=20
of the vacation program, there is another list called vacation-list for=20
discussion of the program.  I have copied this message to that list as well.

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vacation-list

> I use opensuse 10.1 and install vacation package to get automatic replays.

Understood.  I don't use SuSE I'm afraid, but I'll do my best!

> Unfortunally something is wrong and i can't get what is that:
> I have different sympthoms to diferent users ; for users with home
> directory in main /home
> catalog (/home/$user) and with simple .forward file I got error :
> Jun 14 08:58:37 $serwer postfix/local[22155]: EE6B414055:
> to=3D<$user@$serwer>, relay=3Dlocal, delay=3D1, status=3Dsent (delivered =
to
> mailbox) Jun 14 08:58:37 $serwer local[22217]: fatal: execvp
> /usr/bin/vacation: Operation not permitted.

My guess for this is that it could be something to do with AppArmor in=20
OpenSuSE, certainly Googling around seems to show up similar issues with it.

Such problems would be reported in /var/log/audit/audit.log I believe.

> But some of my users are in /home/%users/%domain/$user and with same
> (expect $user part) .forward file I got this error :
> Jun 14 08:07:32 $serwer postfix/local[21226]: warning: cannot open file
> /home/$path/ewik/.forward: Operation not permitted.

Again, I suspect that is also the issue here.

> I just install rpm from opensuse with yast and change nothing.

According to the following link the correct solution for this is to=20
run "logprof" as root (and not confined by AppArmor) and then let it insert=
=20
the correct rules for vacation and Postfix when prompted.

http://archive.cert.uni-stuttgart.de/suse-security/2006/07/msg00063.html

Let me know how you go!

All the best,
Chris
=2D-=20
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Vacation 1.2.7.0-beta4
=2D---------------------

This beta release updates the build process to remove the -m486 flag on=20
non-PPC systems as the distros are already doing this.

* This may break backwards compatibility on AMD64/EM64T based systems,
* the fix is to run vacation -I to reinitialise your database of addresses =
you
* have received email from.

The option '-i' has been added as an alias for '-I' and documented in the=20
manual page.

This release includes the Makefile changes from Marshal Newrock to build=20
(hopefully) on FreeBSD with automatic detection of whether it is necessary.

There have been a few other housekeeping changes.

Please report any problems!

You can find it here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D3852&package_id=3D3=
820&release_id=3D506063

All the best,
Chris
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On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:01:43 +1000
Chris Samuel <ch...@cs...> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Marshal Newrock wrote:
> 
> > First off, a big thank you for picking up this project.
> 
> Not a problem, and my apologies for taking so long to respond!  Work
> has been a little hectic recently..

I understand about that.

> > I have succeeded in installing it on FreeBSD 6.1.
> 
> Excellent!
> 
> > The requirements are: 
> > * gmake (/usr/ports/devel/gmake)
> > * gdbm (/usr/ports/databases/gdbm)
> > * Perl gdbm bindings (/usr/ports/databases/p5-GDBM)
> 
> I'm not a *BSD user so I've no idea if that's something I can do
> anything about from my end ?  I'm happy to do so if it is.

No, this is just information for people building on FreeBSD, and the
port maintainer if vacation gets added as a FreeBSD port.

Thanks again.  :) 

-- 
Marshal Newrock
Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Chris Samuel wrote:

> Also could you tell me what "uname -s" says under FreeBSD please ? =C2=A0=
That'll
> let me automate it rather than having to muck around uncommenting things.

=46orgot to consult Google, the answer is, of course, "FreeBSD". :-)

I've committed a modified Makefile that uses the output of uname -s to swit=
ch=20
between the settings for Linux and FreeBSD.

cheers,
Chris
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Marshal Newrock wrote:

> First off, a big thank you for picking up this project.

Not a problem, and my apologies for taking so long to respond!  Work has be=
en=20
a little hectic recently..

> I have succeeded in installing it on FreeBSD 6.1.

Excellent!

> The requirements are:=20
> * gmake (/usr/ports/devel/gmake)
> * gdbm (/usr/ports/databases/gdbm)
> * Perl gdbm bindings (/usr/ports/databases/p5-GDBM)

I'm not a *BSD user so I've no idea if that's something I can do anything=20
about from my end ?  I'm happy to do so if it is.

> The Makefile had to be edited:
> LIBS =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=3D -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -lgdbm
> BINDIR =A0 =A0 =A0=3D /usr/local/bin
> MANDIR =A0 =A0 =A0=3D /usr/local/man/man

Thanks for that, I've just modified the Makefile to set those as commented =
out=20
settings for FreeBSD and committed it to Subversion.  If you could test tha=
t=20
it'd be great!

Also could you tell me what "uname -s" says under FreeBSD please ?  That'll=
=20
let me automate it rather than having to muck around uncommenting things.

> And vacation must be compiled with gmake instead of make.

OK, documented, thanks!

> Both vacation and vaclook have been tested and are working.

Excellent.

> Hopefully this info will be useful to getting vacation back in FreeBSD
> ports.=20

If there's anything more I can do please let me know and hopefully it won't=
=20
take me as long to respond. :-)

> And if not, then it can help other people use vacation in FreeBSD. =A0:)

Indeed, much appreciated, thanks.

All the best,
Chris
=2D-=20
 Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC

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First off, a big thank you for picking up this project.

I have succeeded in installing it on FreeBSD 6.1.  The requirements are:
* gmake (/usr/ports/devel/gmake)
* gdbm (/usr/ports/databases/gdbm)
* Perl gdbm bindings (/usr/ports/databases/p5-GDBM)

The Makefile had to be edited:
LIBS        = -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -lgdbm
BINDIR      = /usr/local/bin
MANDIR      = /usr/local/man/man

And vacation must be compiled with gmake instead of make.

Both vacation and vaclook have been tested and are working.  Hopefully
this info will be useful to getting vacation back in FreeBSD ports.
And if not, then it can help other people use vacation in FreeBSD.  :)

-- 
Marshal Newrock, Ideal Solution LLC
http://www.idealso.com

This is a minor bugfix release to the 1.2.6 series of Vacation inspired by=
=20
looking at the sorts of things Linux distros patch for their own usage.

Vacation no longer builds as -m486 by default, though it will build as 32-b=
it=20
on AMD64/EM64T because GDBM is not 32/64-bit portable and trying to run a=20
64-bit version against a 32-bit created GDBM causes it to fail and syslog a=
=20
success message. This is sub-optimal.

The Makefiles CFLAGS handling has been tidied up a fair bit as a consequenc=
e=20
and will hopefully make life a little easier for distributors and it no=20
longer tries to strip the vaclook Perl script on install, which was very=20
silly.

Vacation also now accepts the -i option as well as -I to initialise its=20
database.

You can find it here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D3852&package_id=3D3=
820&release_id=3D480143

cheers,
Chris
=2D-=20
 Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC

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Another quick release, this time changing the address parsing for From: and=
=20
Reply-To: headers to use Eric Raymonds rfc822.c library from his Unix=20
Cookbook and fetchmail.  You can enable the old behaviour by compiling with=
=20
the -DOLD compiler option.

It also fixes the bug that broke the -r option, there was a stray ":" in th=
e=20
getopt(3) call that meant it expected an (unnecessary) argument.

There's a couple of trivial tweaks too.

Please report successful and unsuccessful uses!

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D3852&package_id=3D3=
820&release_id=3D479920

thanks,
Chris
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Apologies for that folks, Mailman was a bit quick for me.. :-)

It hasn't affected anyone, just an internal admin change..

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repository from CVS to Subversion at Sourceforge.net.

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Hi there,

I'm happy to announce that Vacation 1.2.6.2 has been released, over 5 years=
=20
since the previous release of 1.2.6.1.

2006/08/25
=2D Vacation now adds the "Precedence: bulk" header to all outgoing emails.
=2D Tagged vacation_1_2_6_2
=2D Almost released as 1.2.6.2
=2D Forgot to update ChangeLog - fixed
=2D Tagged vacation_1_2_6_2_changelog
=2D Forgot to update maintainer information - fixed
=2D Tagger vacation_1_2_6_2_changelog_maintainer
=2D Released as 1.2.6.2

Also I have taken over maintaining the Vacation program, along with Brian M=
ay.

It will take a little time for us to get to grips with what our plans are f=
or=20
the code and whether we continue from the current code base or rebase from=
=20
another, such as the version currently packaged in Debian.

All the best,
Chris
=2D-=20
 Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC

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Hi,

I have running red hat linux 8 with sendmail 8.12.5-7 and want to install
the sendmail vacation program

i have dowloaded and zipped the program vacation-1.2.6.1 in
/usr/src/vacation and now when I run

make install

it gives the following errors

gcc  -m486 -Wall  -Xlinker -warn-common
-D_PATH_VACATION=\"/usr/bin/vacation\" -o vacation vacation.c -lgdbm
`-m486' is deprecated. Use `-march=i486' or `-mcpu=i486' instead.
install -s -m 755 vacation /usr/bin/vacation
install -s -m 755 vaclook /usr/bin/vaclook
strip: /usr/bin/vaclook: File format not recognized
install -m 444 vacation.man /usr/man/man1/vacation.1
install -m 444 vaclook.man /usr/man/man1/vaclook.1


am i doin anything wrong. appreciate your detailed steps


thanks and regards

simon

Hi,

I have running red hat linux 8 with sendmail 8.12.5-7 and want to install
the sendmail vacation program

i have dowloaded and zipped the program vacation-1.2.6.1 in
/usr/src/vacation and now when I run

make install

it gives the following errors

gcc  -m486 -Wall  -Xlinker -warn-common
-D_PATH_VACATION=\"/usr/bin/vacation\" -o vacation vacation.c -lgdbm
`-m486' is deprecated. Use `-march=i486' or `-mcpu=i486' instead.
install -s -m 755 vacation /usr/bin/vacation
install -s -m 755 vaclook /usr/bin/vaclook
strip: /usr/bin/vaclook: File format not recognized
install -m 444 vacation.man /usr/man/man1/vacation.1
install -m 444 vaclook.man /usr/man/man1/vaclook.1


am i doin anything wrong. appreciate your detailed steps


thanks and regards

simon

hello all,

We are using vacation-1.2.7.rc1-1 and I have a problem about routing email. 
The school switched over their userID scheme so now you are identified by a 
mostly numeric ID (like "w00005414") instead of an ID created from parts of 
your real name ( like for example "bgibson"). This has become somewhat of a 
nightmare since the "WID" as it is called is supposed to remain hidden from 
the public. We have everyone send out their email through one server and it 
is running a procmail gateway that mangles certain headers that have the 
WID but do not need it. For instance, the Eudora client adds an "X-Sender:" 
header that originally looked like this

X-Sender: w00...@wh...

and the procmail rules convert it to

X-Sender: wxx...@wh...

(Yes I am ashamed that we had to mangle headers.......)

I noticed that the WID was appearing in several places when our vacation 
message would be triggered. I added a "From" line to the .vacation.msg file 
that gets generated for the user and that got rid of a lot of the headers 
with the WID but.... the server that processes the end user's vacation file 
does so after it has passed through the procmail gateway (if an internal 
user sent to another user with a vacation message then the email stays on 
that server, if an outsider sent the email it will send the reply email 
directly out by doing the MX lookup and delivering the message.)

Is there a way to have the vacation program send the email it processes out 
to a different SMTP server?
I didn't see this in the man page so I think I am grasping at straws.

Here is the header that I get when I send to someone with the vacation 
message enabled. Notice the very first two lines added (I believe) from 
Sendmail as it processes the message.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Return-Path: <w12...@ma...>
Received: (from w12345679@localhost)
by mail2.wheatonma.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h8AFBxl10857
for bg...@wh...; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:11:59 -0400
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:11:59 -0400
Message-Id: <200...@ma...>
User-Agent: Vacation/1.2.6 http://vacation.sourceforge.net
To: bg...@wh...
Subject: paula erson - away from my Wheaton College mail
From: vac...@wh...
Precedence: bulk

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for any help you might be able to offer on this question.

Anyone, please help me.

My vacation program work fine if outsider people is sending mail to me.
But if I login to the Linux server and use pine or mail to a local user,
it is not working at all. Therefore, if I use a webmail interface to
send to local user, it will not work as well.

Please help and thanks in advance.

Sendmail give me the follow error message.

Jan  2 19:12:42 xserverpro vacation[8100]: vacation: .vacation.db:
Permission denied 
Jan  2 19:12:42 xserverpro sendmail[8099]: g02BCgm08096: to="|vacation
boom", ctl...@mi... (504/504), delay=00:00:00,
xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=60285, dsn=5.3.0, stat=unknown mailer
error 1

This work if outsider send mail to me

an  2 19:09:02 xserverpro sendmail[8032]: g02B92l08032:
from=<tan...@ce...>, size=672, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<001601c1937d$e26576e0$0c01a8c0@sygw>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA,
relay=dtcimfe1.celcom.net.my [203.82.64.150]
Jan  2 19:09:02 xserverpro sendmail[8035]: g02B92I08035: from=boom,
size=249, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<200...@xs...>,
relay=root@localhost
Jan  2 19:09:02 xserverpro sendmail[8033]: g02B92l08032: to="|vacation
boom", ctladdr=<bo...@mi...> (504/504), delay=00:00:00,
xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=60018, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Jan  2 19:09:02 xserverpro sendmail[8033]: g02B92l08032: to=\boom,
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=60018, dsn=2.0.0,
stat=Sent
Jan  2 19:09:03 xserverpro sendmail[8038]: g02B92I08035:
to=...@ce..., ctladdr=boom (504/504), delay=00:00:01,
xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=30249, relay=celmel1.celcom.net.my.
[203.82.64.150], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Message received:
200...@xs...)

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