Re: [cpx] Aut*Reply function not working Please Help

[Rus Berrett <rberrett@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 08:55:06AM -0700, Scott Wiersdorf wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [cpx] Aut*Reply function not working Please Help
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> > But I get no reply when I send and email.  they are receiving  the mail
> 
> You get no reply, but "they" *are* receiving the mail?
> 
> I believe that autoreply will only reply once per week per sender (or
> something like that. Rus?)

Yes, there is that, but there was also a bug I fixed about setting up
the vacation.db file using real vs. effective id... i had to do the
whole "($>, $<) = ($<, $>) in a forked child, wait for child, then 
chown() in parent" dance... remember?  Maybe you don't, but we had a
small discussion about it.  ;)

The fix is to login with a shell as user, nuke the vacation.db file
(rm -f /home/[username]/.cpx/autoreply/vacation.db), and then reinit the 
db file as the user:

  /usr/bin/vacation -i -r 7 -f /home/[username]/.cpx/autoreply/vacation.db

the reply interval is set in days (7 is the default, but you can change
that to 1 or whatever).

the new code for 1.5 has all these fixes in it plus new setting to allow
you to change the reply interval (or omit a reply interval altogether).

sorry about the hassle.

--rus.


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