OT (maybe) Vacation script stopped working

[Julian Field]

MailScanner does not get involved with mail delivery or .forward files at all.

At 19:33 03/05/2004, you wrote:
>I'm hunting down a new problem that may be coincedent with installing
>MailScanner several months ago. I've had a long-running mail server
>(Sendmail 8.11.6, RH 7.2) and I have been able to provide my users with
>the vacation script (using the version 1.2.6 from
>http://vacation.sourceforge.net/). I have to set up one for someone on
>maternity leave, and now I'm getting a message:
>
>550 5.7.1 /home/bshea/.forward: line 1: "|vacation userid" ... Address
><uerid at here.com> is unsafe for mailing to programs
>
>This normally means that one doesn't have the vacation program
>"registered" with smrsh, but it is--just as it always was. The vacation
>program runs fine from the command line.
>
>The log files state that the error is coming from sendmail, but I was
>wondering if something in the installation of MailScanner could caused the
>change in my server.
>
>I expect that it's not the case, otherwise I would have found something
>when I searched the archives and MAQ.
>
>Erich
>
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