autoresponder problem

[nobaloney]

The following occurred using DA v1.27.4.

Today I set up a new autoresponder (see my post under MySQL) .

Exim told me that my autoresponder didn't exist.

Tracing using exim -bh eventually led me to the fact that other autoresponders had:

autorespondername::blackhole:

in the file /etc/virtual/nobaloney.net/aliases, while the new autoreponder didn't.

So I added the line:

mysqlperformance::blackhole:

and aftewards the autoresponder worked properly.

Has anyone else had this problem?

Any ideas on what might be causing it?

Jeff

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

I believe it's a quirk.. documented here:
http://www.site-helper.com/email.html#autoresponders

Note You must have a pop account or a forwader associated with the autoresponder.

John

 

[nobaloney]

Yep. I somehow missed that.

Darn.

(That's D a r n; it's not too clear on my monitor ).

If I ever have the time I'll try to figure out a way to remove that dependency. It should be doable.

Jeff

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Took me a while to figure out as well. The problem is that some people want to have a pop account and an autoresponder.. and some just want the autoresponder. In order to satisfy both cases without getting a bounce error, the mail has to be accepted, as the autoresponder is "hidden". The trick would be to make the autoresponder seen for delivery.. but hidden in that the processing continues on to pop accounts and aliases.

John

 

[nobaloney]

I didn't say it was easy .

Jeff