On 4/24/2014 7:31 AM, Charles Richard wrote: > Hi, > > I have an issue with the postfix vacation responder that makes no > sense to me and since I'm not a mail expert, I'm hoping this might > make sense to somebody. > > We are using postfix 2.5.9, postfix admin 2.3.2 . > > My boss was going on vacation so I setup the "set vacation" message > while she was away. I did a test and I received her out of office > message. > > When she came back, she told me no messages came through to her > inbox. Not even my original test email. > > I did a test on my account, setting the vacation away message and my > account received the messages even though there was an away message. > > Does this make any sense? I don't understand how her mailbox could > behave that way. > > Thanks, > Charles
First, there is no postfix vacation responder. I suppose you enabled some feature bundled with the postfix-admin package. Maybe the postfix-admin support forums can provide more insight into how to debug this. Postfix always records what happens with messages in the system maillog, so the first thing to do is examine the logs searching for deliveries to the target mailbox. Hopefully you still have logs from the time in question. You didn't mention getting a non-delivery message in your original test, so my wild guess is the message was somehow delivered to the wrong file location due to a misconfiguration of the vacation script. Examine the logs carefully for clues suggesting this, and search your filesystem for the missing messages. Good luck. -- Noel Jones
