Need Help Please

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

True. When troubleshooting, I also verify the vacation database files and
try it from local-only catchall addresses by telnetting to port 25.

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From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Julian Field
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:34 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Need Help Please

Not knowing how much you know about "vacation", I thought I better just
mention that it is designed to only reply to each sender address once a week
at most. So if you keep trying to call it from the same address, don't be
surprised that you get no response. Check the datestamps on the .dir/.pag
files to see if they are being read or written.


On 10/11/04 3:16 pm, "Alex Neuman van der Hans" <alex at nkpanama.com> wrote:

> You might also want to check things that you usually take for granted,
> like file permissions, the fact that the vacation program has to have
> a link to it in /etc/smrsh if you're using sendmail, that vacation is
> ./configure'd with the proper uid/gid, etc. - you'd be surprised how
> much those little details (which are mentioned in the vacation manual)
matter.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Ugo Bellavance
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 9:25 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Need Help Please
>
> Dave Filchak wrote:
>> My question really was whether or not MailScanner might be stopping
>> the auto response from being sent to the original sender from the
>> vacation
> program.
>> Or maybe not MailScanner but perhaps ClamAV. Vacation is not
>> complicated to set up and it was working fine. However, I have
>> upgraded MailScanner and associated programs a number of times over
>> the last little while and now I cannot seem to get the program to
>> send out an auto response so I thought there was a possibility of
>> trouble with Clam or something. However, there is no indication in
>> the logs as to what might be happening so I was wondering if anyone
>> experienced issues with vacation and the MailScanner suite of
>> programs. I am just fishing here trying to figure out what the hell is
going on.
>
> What you can do is make a ruleset that bypasses Spam tests for
> messages coming from the server, 127.0.0.1.  You could whitelist it
instead.
>
> As long as auto-replies don't contain attachments or HTML it shouldn't
> be caught the security checks of MailScanner.
>
> Hope this answers your question, but for sure you should test it
> before putting it in production, like anything.
>
> Ugo
>
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