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3) Open the file config.ini in the new folder that was created in step #1  You shouldn't really need to change anything there, but you MUST have the file /usr/bin/vacation on your system for this to work.  If you do not, please do "yum install vacation" to install it (as root)

3) Open plugins/vacation/config.ini in your editor and change the settings if needed.


What Changes am i expected to make here in step 3 if any?
The folder vacation,you are refering to in step 3;  /usr/bin/vacation; is it the usr folder from the root directory??
Please clarify step 3 before i proceed,Am following carefully with your outline,thank you so much,

The change you would make to config.ini would primarily be the top part under [default] - you have to tell vacation how it can communicate with the IMAP server because the way vacation works is to create a file called a .forward (pronounced "dot forward")  So what happens is that mail comes in and actually forwards to the vacation program, which reads the headers, and constructs and sends an autoresponse which the customer configures.

You can see which drivers are available in README.txt.  You will need to pick one that is appropriate for whatever mail server software you are running.  The default is FTP in which case the vacation program will log in via FTP to your specified mail server using the username and password of the person logged into Roundcube mail, and will upload the .forward file which makes the vacation program work.

As to your 2nd question, yes, /usr/bin/vacation is relative to the / or root folder.  So wherever that file is located on your system, change the path to point there.

Available drivers
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The following drivers are available to do the low level work:
- Sieve. This driver uses ManagedSieve to set/get the Sieve script for sending mail.
- FTP. This driver uploads the .forward file to the user's homedirectory.
- SSHFTP. This driver uses SSH to upload .forward file to the user's homedirectory.
- Setuid. This driver places the .forward file in the user's homedirectory using
the squirrel setuid binary.
- SQL. This driver creates entries in the vacation table in a MySQL database and
modifies the alias table.
At the moment the SQL driver is tailored towards Postfix with either MySQL or PostgreSQL
 but can be modified to suit other configurations.
- None. This driver disables the Vacation tab for hosts that do not support Out of office replies.

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Thank you so much,it has worked,Just what i was looking for.

xterm:Am sorry to ask once more,
I have messed up my server and am now setting it up again,i have followed the steps as before but with no luck,i get stuck at number 3. i dont have the /usr/bin/vacation folder; i have tried apt-get install vacation but i seem to loose it somewhere;am now sick not understanding steps 3-5.Please clarify once more,the error i have now is
CONFIGURATION ERROR

Vacation plugin: Cannot connect to the FTP-server 'ubuntu'
Please read the INSTALL instructions!
am thinking its the same path issue /usr/bin/vacation
Any help please;

Vacation plugin: Cannot connect to the FTP-server 'ubuntu'
It's not the path of vacation, its the fact that you put the FTP server's name as "ubuntu" - that should instead contain the full hostname or the IP address of the FTP server where the vacation plugin will connect to in order to upload the .forward file.

But this same 'ubuntu' is the name of the mail  server ;Do you know where i can make this change?

Your system needs to be able to resolve it - so maybe it should be 'ubuntu.domain.com', or like I say, just put its IP in there - its in the ini file that you edited.

Please help...I have followed these instructions above but I can't figure out which driver to use.
If I leave it at the default driver = "ftp" the vacation tab shows up but I still get the same error (as above). If I leave it as [default] and change driver to sshftp the tab shows up but when I click on it the page is blank.  I have tried so many settings in config.ini and now I am just totally confused.  How do I figure that out? I don't know if this matters but our email addresses have to be fname.lname@host.ca.  I have put the name of our mail server in as well ie. mail.shxxxxx.com and also tried one of our domains mail.xxxx.ca.

Current Error message:
Vacation plugin: Cannot login to FTP-server 'mail.xxxx.ca' with username: kxxx.hxxxx@xxxx.ca
Please read the INSTALL instructions!


Thank You