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Okay, does anybody know what mechanism Virtualmin uses for autoreply so I can create a workaround? Is it a native function of postfix? It's starting to get ugly around here...
Howdy,
Yeah, I think you did the right thing in filing a bug request:
http://www.virtualmin.com/index.php?option=com_flyspray&do=details&a...
I'm not sure what might cause the above. I do believe that the reply is added within /etc/postfix/virtual, and you may be able to tweak it from within there, but hopefully Jamie can figure out why the problem you're having is occurring in the first place.
-Eric
Well, actually <i>I</i> didn't, but I'm glad to see that the ball is rolling. However, a workaround would be greatly appriciated!
I don't think the actual out of office texts are located in /etc/postfix/virtual.
Heh, indeed, sometimes I think I respond prior to thinking; a bad habit :-)
Lemme fire up an auto-reply here and I'll see how it does things.
-Eric
Okay, it looks like in $HOME for the user in question, will be an autoreply-USERNAME.txt file containing the text.
The autoreply is called from within /etc/aliases.
-Eric
Thanks! How is the auto reply called from /etc/aliases? Can you post the line from your config file?
Sure.
For this, "example" is the name of the user I added the autoreply to:
[code:1]example: \example,"|/etc/webmin/virtual-server/autoreply.pl /home/example/autoreply-example.txt example /var/virtualmin-autoreply/12327793358294-autoreply-example.txt"[/code:1]
The file in /var/virtualmin-autoreply/ appears to be identical to the one in /home/example, though they aren't symlinks.
However, you shouldn't be having a problem creating aliases -- and I'm not sure that the bug in the tracker is the same one you're having -- I'd definitely recommend filing a new bug report so that Jamie can take a look.
-Eric
Sure.
For this, "example" is the name of the user I added the autoreply to:
[code:1]example: \example,"|/etc/webmin/virtual-server/autoreply.pl /home/example/autoreply-example.txt example /var/virtualmin-autoreply/12327793358294-autoreply-example.txt"[/code:1]
The file in /var/virtualmin-autoreply/ appears to be identical to the one in /home/example, though they aren't symlinks.
However, you shouldn't be having a problem creating aliases -- and I'm not sure that the bug in the tracker is the same one you're having -- I'd definitely recommend filing a new bug report so that Jamie can take a look.
-Eric
Well, I've updated Webmin and it's not solved. I think it's a bug and will file it.
The autoreply files are at locations like /home/example/autoreply-example.txt .
The file under /var/virtualmin-autoreply is a hard link to the same file, created to get around permissions on the home directory that would prevent the Postfix 'nobody' or 'daemon' user from reading the autoreply file.
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Okay, but where are aliasses placed? The aliasses Virtualmin creates arent under /etc/aliasses.
I guess you're looking for /etc/postfix/virtual? Aliases for virtual mail is somewhat different than local aliases...you could have hundreds of users name "joe" in such a situation.
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Bingo! That's what I was looking for. Can I simply add a line there to get an autoreply? Like in the posted example?