Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply

[Andre Albsmeier]

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On Tue, 08-Sep-2009 at 05:19:53 +0000, lyd mc wrote:
> Hi Andre,
> 
> I haven't solve it yet. I use the one in the ports tree (/usr/ports/mail/vacation) as my work around.
> 
> Now I use sieve script for vacation notice.
> 
> Do you have a patch? May be I can use it in the future... Thanks.

No, I have a workaround. Do you have the sources to
compile vacation yourself? Can you recompile it without

-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing

and try again? And then recompile it with

-O2

and try this again?

	-Andre

> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> alyd
> 
> --- On Sat, 9/5/09, Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier at siemens.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier at siemens.com>
> Subject: Re: Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply
> To: "lyd mc" <alydiomc at yahoo.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Date: Saturday, September 5, 2009, 2:43 AM
> 
> On Thu, 16-Apr-2009 at 18:00:26 +0000, lyd mc wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > Why Freebsd built-in vacation program (/usr/bin/vacation) does not auto reply?
> > 
> > I am using fresh installed Freebsd7.0 and 7.1. here is my configs.
> 
> Did you solve the problem already? I had a similar issue and
> tracked it down to a really strange compiler bug...
> 
>     -Andre
> 
> > 
> > Under the home directory of the user (alydio.mc)
> > 
> > .forward
> > ??? \alydio.mc, "|/usr/bin/vacation alydio.mc"
> > 
> > .vacation.msg
> > ?? Subject: On vacation message
> > ?? From: alydio.mc at mydomain.com
> > ?? I'm on vacation and will not be reading my mail for a while.
> > ? Your mail will be dealt with when I return.
> > .
> > from postfix/sendmail logs:
> > 
> > ...sniff
> > ?(delivered to command: /usr/bin/vacation alydio.mc)
> > 
> > after this nothing will happened... no errors.... no warnings...? 
> > 
> > However the one I installed from ports (/usr/local/bin/vacation) works fine.
> > 
> > 
> > I want to use the freebsd base vacation program.? 
> > 
> > Please help.
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > alydiomc
> > 
> > 
> >       
> 
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> 
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