Greetings All,
(Note I'm not yet subscribed to debian-devel or debian-users. Debian
majordomo is SLOW. Postfix's majordomo took 5 minutes total. Debian's is
at about an hour now. I'm jumping the gun on those lists and notifying
folks like the debian list rules say to.)
I'm on debian 2.2 potato having done the latest apt-get update and
upgrade. I'm using a hand compiled postfix-1.1.3 with smtp-auth using
cyrus-sasl-1.5.27. Works like a champ! I really love debian and postfix.
When I upgraded debian it gave me the new libdb3 package (from libdb2 I
believe). This gave SEGV errors to sasl and consequently postfix. I
recompiled both from the ORIGINAL source tree I used so many months ago
and am back on track with my mail server authing smtp. But the real
KILLER here is that vacation-3.2.3 doesn't work now! It did work before
the apt-get upgrade. I don't know which version of vacation I *was*
using, but this one is kapoot. The only things that I can see having
changed related to this setup are 1) libdb3 2) vacation
Here's my story. I have a user named jim that can send and recieve mail
via smtp(postfix)/pop(pop3d) from any old mail client. It works fine.
But the vacation component is failing. I set up a forward as follows.
pertinent $HOME files
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-rw---1 jim jim49 Aug 28 11:50 .forward
-rw---1 jim jim 4096 Aug 28 11:50 .vacation.db
-rw---1 jim jim 135 Aug 28 11:50 .vacation.msg
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.vacation.msg
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Subject: On vacation message.
I'm on vacation and will not be reading my mail for a while.
Your mail will be dealt with when I return.
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.forward
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\jim, "|/usr/bin/vacation jim"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Using this setup I get the message in the jim mailbox. I get the message
in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailbox. So the original delivery and the forward
to new address are working fine. But I get the following error bounced
back to the sender.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mail Delivery System)
Date: Wed Aug 28, 2002 11:57:31 AM America/Anchorage
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
This is the Postfix program at host mail.mycompany.com.
I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.
For further assistance, please send mail to
If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the message returned below.
The Postfix program
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Command died with status 1: "/usr/bin/vacation
jim". Command output: vacation: .vacation.db: Unknown error
4294936306
Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.mycompany.com
Arrival-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:57:30 -0800 (AKDT)
Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Command died with status 1:
"/usr/bin/vacation
jim". Command output: vacation: .vacation.db: Unknown error
4294936306
From: Jim Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed Aug 28, 2002 11:57:29 AM America/Anchorage
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 35
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Now I'm no dummy here (and I'm humble ;). I know that error 4294936306
is probably some horrid negative number casted to unsigned. It's most
likely some runtime library error. And I'll bet it's not in signal.h ;)
So, I being the genius that I am apt-get removed the offending vacation.
Then I compiled it myself. I've tried both
vacation-1.2.6.1 from http://vacation.sourceforge.net/
vacation-3.2.3 from http://www.linux.it/~md/software/
Now, vacation-3.2.3 gives the same error as the debian binary because it
is the same program.
vacation-1.2.6.1 gives me a different but similar bounced message show
below
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mail Delivery System)
Date: Wed Aug 28, 2002 12:37:06 PM America/Anchorage
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
This is the Postfix program at host mail.mycompany.com.
I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.
For further assistance, please send mail to
If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the mes
