OT: auto responder (OOO) question

[Scott Silva]

on 5/12/2011 1:09 PM Steve Campbell spake the following:
> 
> 
> On 5/12/2011 3:28 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
>> on 5/12/2011 11:20 AM Steve Campbell spake the following:
>>> As much as I hate to set one of these up, a fellow employee has persuaded me
>>> to set up an out-of-office deal for her. I'm running Centos 3 and sendmail.
>>> I've played around with a .procmailrc file, but it doesn't seem to do
>>> anything. I've also created the symlink in /etc/smrsh to procmail with no
>>> avail.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if I have to restart sendmail after creating the link?
>>> Does Mailscanner have any bearing on using procmail?
>>>
>>> Any suggestions, please?
>>>
>>> steve campbell
>>>
>> This actually looked good... Won't respond to spam...
>>
>> http://devhen.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/how-to-setup-a-vacation-autoresponder-with-procmail-sendmail/
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> Thanks Scott,
> 
> That's actually the one I'm using right now. It creates the log and logs to
> it, but never sends out the reply. I guess it's working, but can't seem to
> find out why it's not sending out the response since nothing is getting logged
> elsewhere.
> 
> I've deleted the log and started over just in case it tests that, still no luck.
> 
> steve
> 
Do you have an /etc/procmailrc that might be grabbing procmail and ending it?
I don't remember if procmail drops privilege or not, but check permissions on
all related files...
maybe you need fully qualified paths, or paths are wrong somehow?