OT: auto responder (OOO) question

[Steve Campbell]

Quoting Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>:

> 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/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > 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?
> 
> 
Thanks again,

I'll check for the file in /etc. Pretty sure the permissions are all OK.

steve

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