Vacation Option with PostfixAdmin
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Install and Configure the Vacation Option
This installation is for Ubuntu 9.10 but should work for just about any Linux distro. The vacation package is nice in that you can create an automatic message for when you are not available.
You will need to install a number of packages.
sudo apt-get install libmail-sender-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libemail-valid-perl libmime-perl liblog-log4perl-perl liblog-dispatch-perl libgetopt-argvfile-perl libmime-charset-perl libmime-encwords-perl
Install a Perl Module
From the command line install the Mail::Sendmail perl module.
perl -MCPAN -e shell;
Set it up, likely just hitting enter will provide the options you need. Once it is complete you will have a shell login for installing modules. Issue this command:
install Mail::Sendmail
Note it is case sensitive and two colons separate the names. When it is installed issue the “quit” command to return.
groupadd -r -g 65501 vacation
useradd -r -u 65501 -g vacation -d /var/spool/vacation -s /sbin/nologin vacation
cp /usr/share/doc/postfixadmin/VIRTUAL_VACATION/vacation.pl.gz .
gunzip vacation.pl.gz
cp vacation.pl vacation.pl.original
wget http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/vacation.2211.patch.txt
patch -p0 < vacation.2211.patch.txt
or
cd /var/www/postfixadmin/VIRTUAL_VACATION
cp vacation.pl /var/spool/vacation/vacation.pl
wget http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/vacation.2211.patch.txt
patch -p0 < vacation.2211.patch.txt
chown -R vacation:vacation /var/spool/vacation
chmod -R 700 /var/spool/vacation
Update the vacation script with your settings
nano /var/spool/vacation/vacation.pl
our $db_type = ‘mysql’;
our $db_username = ‘postfix’;
our $db_password = ‘db_passwd’;
our $db_name = ‘postfix’;
our $vacation_domain = ‘autoreply.yourdomain.com’;
Save and close (CTRL + X)
Update the postfixadmin config file
cd /var/www/postfixadmin
sudo nano config.inc.php
$CONF['vacation'] = ‘YES’;
$CONF['vacation_domain'] = ‘autoreply.yourdomain.com’;
cd /etc/postfix
nano master.cf
Add (near the end of the file):
vacation unix – n n – - pipe flags=Rq user=vacation argv=/var/spool/vacation/vacation.pl -f ${sender} ${recipient}
Save
nano main.cf
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
Save
Create a virtual file
jane@your_domain.com jane@your_domain.com@autoreply.your_domain.com
tom@your_domain.com tom@your_domain.com@autoreply.your_domain.com
Save
Create (or update) a transport map to handle the redirected email
nano transport
autoreply.your_domain.com vacation
Save
Postfix uses a hashed file to do the lookups, the postmap command creates that file.
postmap /etc/postfix/transport
Reload the postfix config to activate the changes
sudo /etc/init.d/postfix reload
You should now have a working vacation option with Postfix.
