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From: mjn@jet.uucp (mark neale)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs
Subject: emacs rmail and vacation
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.145814.23994@jet.uucp>
Date: 3 Apr 91 14:58:14 GMT
Organization: Joint European Torus
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I am trying to use the vacation program to automatically reply to
message when I am not around. The problem is that it does not seem to
be possible to mail to me from emacs when I have this feature enabled.
My ~/.forward file contains the usual thing:

\mjn, "|/usr/ubc/vacation mjn"

Whenever someone tries to mail me a message when the ~/.forward file
exists, the mail message is returned containing the following:

Mail error was: 554 <"|/usr/ucb/vacation mjn">... Cannot mail directly to programs

However when using the standard mail program everything works fine.

I am running GNU Emacs 18.55.1 (berkeley-unix) on a sparc station

Thanks in advance for any help.

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