Subject: How Do I Turn Off Vacation Msg?

From: Linda Emerson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 21:50:52 -0800 (PST)

Someone suggested that I delete the file in my home directory called
.forward in order to reverse the auto-generated vacation msg.  I tried
this and received the message that the file doesn't exist.

I've contacted the sysadmin at my ISP but he claimed that he didn't even
know the program existed!  <groan>

Any other suggestions?

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From: Dean Pentcheff <[email-masked]>
Date: 25 Sep 1996 00:10:31 -0400

(I also replied to your earlier note, but see that you're still in trouble.)

Make _definitely_ sure that there isn't a /home/lindae/.forward file
(try an "ls -a /home/lindae" to see all the files there).

Definitely try "man vacation" to get the documentation.

Insist on talking to a systems administrator who, if he or she doesn't
know that a program is present on the system, will research the
problem for you.

Failing that, find a supervisor at your ISP and complain vehemently.
It's a _very_ competetive market out there, and you should either
convince them to help you out, or change service providers.

-Dean
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From: [email-masked] (Rick Troxel)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 17:24:32 GMT

In article <Pine.UW2.3.94.960923214743.3624F-100000@mlode>
[email-masked] (Linda Emerson) writes:

   Someone suggested that I delete the file in my home directory called
   .forward in order to reverse the auto-generated vacation msg.  I
   tried this and received the message that the file doesn't exist.

   I've contacted the sysadmin at my ISP but he claimed that he didn't
   even know the program existed!  <groan>

Hmm.  Look in /etc/sendmail.cf (possibly /usr/lib/sendmail.cf or even
elsewhere) for a line that starts with "OJ" or "O ForwardPath=" for
other locations where a .forward file might be living.  Specifically,
this line should give a colon-delimited list of pathnames for potential
.forward files.  Probably there are some abbreviations: $z for your home
directory, and $w for your hostname (unqualfied by its domain name -- no
dots).

If you find such a .forward file, I would suggest renaming it rather
than deleting it, e.g.

	mv .forward.myhost .forward.myhost.DISABLED

or at least to read and record its contents before deleting it.  That
way you'll know if it was really behind your autoresponses.

Hope this helps,
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From: The Sage One <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 02:26:20 GMT

The command is 
$ Mail -F ""

don't forget the double quotes at the end.  They are important ( I don't 
know why I assume it's a path thing)

Stick

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