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== Creating the Vacation User/Group ==
groupadd vacation
useradd -s/sbin/nologin -d/nonexistent -g vacation vacation

See [User Management] for more information on creating users in linux

== Creating Directories ==

mkdir -p /var/spool/vacation
cp /tmp/postfixadmin-2.1.0/VIRTUAL_VACATION/vacation.pl /var/spool/vacation
chown -R vacation.vacation /var/spool/vacation
chmod -R 700 /var/spool/vacation

== Postfix Intigration ==
Edit /etc/postfix/master.cf
Add these lines at the bottom.

### Postfix Admin Vacation Message
vacation unix - n n - - pipe
flags=Rhu user=vacation argv=/var/spool/vacation/vacation.pl

[[Category:PostfixAdmin]]

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 Postfix receives mail. It checks the transport_map for the appropriate transport for the recipients domain.
 What happens next is that the recipient has 2 aliases one to their mailbox and another to an autoreply.domain.
-The transport for the autoreply.domain is 'vacation' (located in master.cf) which pipes the message to vacation.pl which looks up a table in MySQL. This table contains a users vacation message. Vacation.pl then sends an email containing the recipients vacation message the sender. Vacation.pl will only autoreply to each sender once.  The sender list is cached in MySQL.
+The transport for the autoreply.domain is 'vacation' (located in master.cf) which pipes the message to vacation.pl which looks up a table in MySQL. This table contains a users vacation message. Vacation.pl then sends an email containing the recipients vacation message to the sender. Vacation.pl will only autoreply to each sender once.  The sender list is cached in MySQL.
 To enable a vacation message, 2 pieces of information need to be set in MySQL.

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 Postfix receives mail. It checks the transport_map for the appropriate transport for the recipients domain.
 What happens next is that the recipient has 2 aliases one to their mailbox and another to an autoreply.domain.
-The transport for the autoreply.domain is 'vacation' which pipes the message to vacation.pl which looks up a table in MySQL. This table contains a users vacation message. Vacation.pl then sends an email containing the recipients vacation message the sender. Vacation.pl will only autoreply to each sender once.  The sender list is cached in MySQL.
+The transport for the autoreply.domain is 'vacation' (located in master.cf) which pipes the message to vacation.pl which looks up a table in MySQL. This table contains a users vacation message. Vacation.pl then sends an email containing the recipients vacation message the sender. Vacation.pl will only autoreply to each sender once.  The sender list is cached in MySQL.
 To enable a vacation message, 2 pieces of information need to be set in MySQL.

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-'''Overview'''
+'''Overview'''<br>
 Postfix receives mail. It checks the transport_map for the appropriate transport for the recipients domain.
 What happens next is that the recipient has 2 aliases one to their mailbox and another to an autoreply.domain.

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	To enable a vacation message, 2 pieces of information need to be set in MySQL.		To enable a vacation message, 2 pieces of information need to be set in MySQL.
−	~~1) Append user@autoreply.yourdomain.com to the 'goto' field in the alias table. The goto field is a comma seperated list of aliases.~~
−	~~2) Edit the vacation table, addind all relevant information. Do not add anything to the 'cache' field unless you do not want a vacation message sent to that user.~~
−

		+	1) Append user@autoreply.domain.tld to the 'goto' field in the alias table. The goto field is a comma seperated list of aliases.<br>
		+	Your alias table should look something like this:
		+	+-----------------+-------------------------------------------+------------+---------------------+---------------------+--------+
		+	\| address \| goto \| domain \| created \| modified \| active \|
		+	+-----------------+-------------------------------------------+------------+---------------------+---------------------+--------+
		+	\| user@domain.tld \| user@domain.tld,user@autoreply.domain.tld \| domain.tld \| 2005-11-09 13:45:00 \| 2005-11-09 13:45:00 \| 1 \|
		+	+-----------------+-------------------------------------------+------------+---------------------+---------------------+--------+

		+	2) Edit the vacation table, addind all relevant information. Do not add anything to the 'cache' field unless you do not want a vacation message sent to that user.<br>
		+	Your vacation table should look something like this:
		+	+-----------------+---------------------+------------------------------------+-------+------------+---------------------+--------+
		+	\| email \| subject \| body \| cache \| domain \| created \| active \|
		+	+-----------------+---------------------+------------------------------------+-------+------------+---------------------+--------+
		+	\| user@domain.tld \| User is on vacation \| I will be on vacation from Jan 1-7 \| \| domain.tld \| 2005-11-09 13:45:00 \| 1 \|
		+	+-----------------+---------------------+------------------------------------+-------+------------+---------------------+--------+


	[[Category:PostfixAdmin]]		[[Category:PostfixAdmin]]

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−	'''~~More~~ to ~~come~~'''	+	'''Overview'''
		+	Postfix receives mail. It checks the transport_map for the appropriate transport for the recipients domain.
		+	What happens next is that the recipient has 2 aliases one to their mailbox and another to an autoreply.domain.
		+	The transport for the autoreply.domain is 'vacation' which pipes the message to vacation.pl which looks up a table in MySQL. This table contains a users vacation message. Vacation.pl then sends an email containing the recipients vacation message the sender. Vacation.pl will only autoreply to each sender once. The sender list is cached in MySQL.
		+
		+	To enable a vacation message, 2 pieces of information need to be set in MySQL.
		+	1) Append user@autoreply.yourdomain.com to the 'goto' field in the alias table. The goto field is a comma seperated list of aliases.
		+	2) Edit the vacation table, addind all relevant information. Do not add anything to the 'cache' field unless you do not want a vacation message sent to that user.
		+
		+
		+
		+
		+
	[[Category:PostfixAdmin]]		[[Category:PostfixAdmin]]

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   password = ********
   hosts = localhost
-  dbname = postfix
+  dbname = mail
   query = SELECT transport FROM transport_table WHERE domain='%s'
 Edit main.cf and add/change:

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 Create 'transport' field varchr(255)
-Add your FQDN in the 'domain' field and 'virtual:' in the 'transport' field.
+Add your FQDN in the 'domain' field and 'virtual:' in the 'transport' field.<br>
-Add 'autoreply.yourdomain.com in the 'domain' field and 'vacation' in the 'transport' field.
+Add 'autoreply.yourdomain.com in the 'domain' field and 'vacation' in the 'transport' field.<br>
 it should look something like this:
   +----------------------+----------+

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 == Creating the Vacation User/Group ==
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 == Postfix Intigration ==
 Edit /etc/postfix/master.cf
 Add these lines at the bottom.
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   vacation  unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
     flags=Rhu user=vacation argv=/var/spool/vacation/vacation.pl
 [[Category:PostfixAdmin]]