Sendmail+Vacation+RHEL ES

[Craig Daters]

Just thought it might benefit others who are having the same 
issue...RedHat informs me that the vacation feature has been removed 
from the Enterprise server, Their email follows. I did manage to solve 
the problem using Procmail and Formail instead. But here is Red Hat's 
response:

Red Hat Workflow wrote:

 > *Red Hat Notification (FYI)*
 > From: **
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 >
 > Summary: Trying to set up vacation auto responder for a couple of 
employees.
 >
 > NOTE: Please do not reply directly to this email.
 >
 > Type: System Administration
 > Date: 03-AUG-2004 15:01:05
 > Status: Waiting on Technician
 > Urgency: Medium
 >
 > Customer: Craig Daters
 > Product: RHEL ES Basic Serviced System
 > Problem: Network-Sendmail
 >
 > Last Update:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I regret to inform you that the vacation feature has been removed from
 > the RHEL version of sendmail. Our developers found that this feature
 > introduces a lot of remote exploits and therefore found it not suitable
 > for the enterprise environment.
 >
 > Please feel free to write back or to call us in case you have further
 > concerns.
 >
 > Best regards,
 > Robert Reidenbach
 >
 >
 > Please use Technical Support at (http://www.redhat.com/apps/support) to
 > view the progress of or to update this Service Request.
 >
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 > Red Hat Global Support Services
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