Vacation Email Responder
Introduction
This is the port of the 386bsd vacation program to Linux. Vacation is the automatic mail answering program found on many Unix systems. Currently it is just a source based release meaning you will need to download and compile it yourself. Its only external dependency at present is GDBM which your Linux distribution should provide (you may need to install the development package for it).
The maintainers for Vacation are Chris Samuel and Brian May.
Releases
- The current stable release is 1.2.7.0.
- The previous stable release is 1.2.6.4.
- There is no current development release, please see the current Subversion repository for the code currently in development. This is currently unstable!
From here you can:
- Read announcements about Vacation
- Visit the SourceForge Projects Page for Vacation
- Download releases of Vacation
- Report problems or request new features
- Join the Vacation mailing lists
Any Open Source project relies on its users to participate and contribute, so please feel free to test and report problems!
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Hello ,
Your vacation program works great but i have to make it works for aliases. Is there any workaround for this problem?
Regards,
Rafal Domeracki
Same problem with aliases/virtual users in postifx here. vavation only works with the login, not virtual users. I’m looking for a workaround too.
I found the solution. vacation works perfectly and it does not send a autoreply twice to the same sender address. So always test it with different sender addresses.
used to send bulk mails with my eMail-Adress that’s not very nice
Remark for returned mails:
Precedence: bulk
User-Agent: 1.2.7 http://vacation.sourceforge.net
@Rafal – the -a option should work for aliases, and as @orinoco mentioned you’ll need to test from multiple addresses otherwise further responses will have been suppressed for your source email address.
@Wilfried – nothing to do with Vacation I’m afraid, sounds like spammers have forged your email address (happens to me a lot) and have sent emails to people who have Vacation set up. It autoreplied because it got past the recipients spam filters. Vacation has no way of knowing whether or not what you were sent was spam or real email!
Hi,
I’ve installed vacation pluggin from http://peterruiter.com/2009/07/05/roundcube-webmail-auto-reply-plugin/ wich work this greate program in a local test solution using ubuntu as system and it worked.
when I tried it in our platform using Centos as system the program doesn’t work. I don’t know where is the problem exactly, I didn’t found a log file to check what is the pb.
Please, is there a log file for the vacation program?
Is this program work just in local or it can send a distance email (via Internet)
This version of Vacation logs to syslog, so the messages should be in your system log. Note that Debian/Ubuntu use a completely different version of vacation, so for issues with that version you’d need to check with them.