You're right about the problem but you *can* use preline with vacation. The trick is needed: | preline sh -c '/usr/bin/vacation peter; cat > /dev/null' (I got it probably from the qmail list). It works, I used it. I sent myself a message sized a couple of MB to make sure :-) . -- Tomasz Papszun SysAdm @ TP S.A. Lodz, Poland | And it's only [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lodz.tpsa.pl/ | ones and zeros. On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 at 12:06:42 +1000, Peter Samuel wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Dave Sill wrote: > > > Run "|/var/qmail/bin/preline vacation" from /mai/user/.qmail. > > Don't use preline and vacation together. I know I keep saying this, > but it's true! > > If you use qmail's preline utility, remember that preline expects > to pipe the entire mail message through the specified program. If > the specified program closes standard input before preline has > finished, preline will exit with a transient failure and you'll see > the following error in your logs: > > deferral: preline:_fatal:_unable_to_copy_input:_broken_pipe/ > > You'll see this problem if you try to use the sendmail version of > vacation. > > It may not happen every time, but for large messages you will see that > behaviour. > > That's why I wrote the qmail-vacation package. > > ftp://ftp.eserv.com.au/pub/tools/qmail/ > > Regards > Peter > ---------- > Peter Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Technical Consultant or at present: > eServ. Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone: +61 2 9206 3410 Fax: +61 2 9281 1301
