[OT] Sendmail's vacation

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

    I'm trying to figure out how to properly set up sendmail's vacation 
program based on the way things are configured on our network.

    There are three machines in this game: a master MX that accept 
inbound e-mail for our domains.  That MX will then push the messages 
through to a spool server which then stores it.  The server containing 
user accounts exports user data through NIS+ to the spool server, and 
also NFS mounts /var/mail/ from the spool server.

    The problem now is that when a user sets up a vacation message, it 
never works because mail doesn't ever actually get delivered to that 
machine...only to the spool server.  But, the users don't have access to 
the spool server, nor does it actually hold any physical folder 
information for each user, so I wouldn't know how or where to set their 
vacation to begin with.  Oh, and the same applies for anything else 
related to it, like .forward for example.  Because mail doesn't 
physically get delivered to the server containing the user's physical 
account, anything they do won't work.

    Does anyone have any idea how I can solve this issue, without having 
to reconfigure or redo the whole setup?  This is a live, very active, 
setup, and I can't afford down time.

    Thanks.

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