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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!strath-cs!prlhp1!jon
- From: jon@prl.philips.co.uk (Jon Piesing)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Problems with vacation
- Keywords: vacation
- Message-ID: <1720@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 14:07:47 GMT
- Sender: nntp@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk
- Lines: 32
- Nntp-Posting-Host: prsun11i
- X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
-
- One of the users here used the vacation program before he went on vacation.
- As far as I can see, everything is setup correctly but each email sent to
- him generates an error back to the sender of this form :-
-
- ----- Transcript of session follows -----
- vacation: No initial From line
- 500 "|/usr/ucb/vacation rankin"... Bad usage
-
- ----- Unsent message follows -----
- Received: from prsun11i.prl.philips.co.uk by prsun11.prl.philips.co.uk; Wed, 2 Sep 92 13:58:29 BST
- From: Jon Piesing <jon@prl.philips.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 13:58:17 BST
- Message-Id: <13546.9209021258@prsun11i.prl.philips.co.uk>
-
- The email is stored for him okay, it is just that the sender gets a message
- which implies that the email was lost.
-
- I have done some tests running vacation from the command line and in
- order to get it to behave, it seems to want the first line of the email
- to be of the form :-
-
- From Jon Piesing <jon@prl.philips.co.uk>
-
- If a : is present then an error is generated.
-
- Anybody know what is wrong ? The mail server is a Sparc 1+ running 4.1.1.
-
- Jon Piesing
- Philips Research Labs
- Redhill UK
- jon@prl.philips.co.uk
-
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