diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
--- a/index.php
+++ b/index.php
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ if (isset($_REQUEST['_DEBUG_'])) {
     $_debug = 0;
 }
 
+//$stderr = fopen('php://stderr', 'w');
+
 // file_put_contents('/tmp/xxxxxxx', 'check');
 // system('touch /tmp/xxxxxx1');
 
@@ -188,6 +190,7 @@ if ($_debug) {
     echo ('</pre>'."\n");
 }
 
+$vacation_msg_in_file = sprintf('%s/%s', $home, $VACATION_MSG_IN_FILE);
 $vacation_msg_file = sprintf('%s/%s', $home, $VACATION_MSG_FILE);
 $vacation_db_file = sprintf('%s/%s', $home, $VACATION_DB_FILE);
 $forward_file = sprintf('%s/%s', $home, $FORWARD_FILE);
@@ -219,7 +222,7 @@ if ($forward_active)
 
 $vacation_setup_raw = isset($_REQUEST["raw"]);
 $vacation_clear = isset($_REQUEST['clear']);
-if ($vacation_clear || !test_readable($vacation_msg_file, $user)) {
+if ($vacation_clear || !test_readable($vacation_msg_in_file, $user)) {
     // Reset to default
     $vacation_msg = get_text('vacation');
     $vacation_parts = vacation_split($vacation_msg, False);
@@ -228,7 +231,7 @@ if ($vacation_clear || !test_readable($v
     $vacation_msg = vacation_join($vacation_subject, $vacation_body);
     $vacation_setup_raw = False;
 } else {
-    $vacation_msg = cat_file($vacation_msg_file, $user);
+    $vacation_msg = cat_file($vacation_msg_in_file, $user);
 }
 
 $message_parts = message_split($vacation_msg);
@@ -312,13 +315,17 @@ if ($vacation_setup || $vacation_setup_r
 
     while (True) {
         if ($vacation_del_log) {
-            system(sprintf(
-                       '%s -u %s %s %s %s',
-                       $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $VACATION_CMD, $VACATION_INIT_OPTS));
-            $vacation_excl_pipe = popen(sprintf(
-                      '%s -u %s %s %s %s',
-                      $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $VACATION_CMD, $VACATION_EXLCUDE_OPTS),
-                'w');
+            $cmd = sprintf(
+                '%s -u %s %s %s %s',
+                $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $VACATION_CMD, $VACATION_INIT_OPTS);
+            // fprintf($stderr, "\$cmd: %s<br>\n", $cmd);
+            system($cmd);
+
+            $pipe_cmd = sprintf(
+                '%s -u %s %s %s %s',
+                $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $VACATION_CMD, $VACATION_EXLCUDE_OPTS);
+            // fprintf($stderr, "\$pipe_cmd: %s<br>\n", $pipe_cmd);
+            $vacation_excl_pipe = popen($pipe_cmd, 'w');
             fwrite($vacation_excl_pipe, sprintf("%s%s\n", $user, $DOMAIN_SUFFIX));
             if (!empty($user_alias)) {
                 fwrite($vacation_excl_pipe, sprintf("%s%s\n", $user_alias, $DOMAIN_SUFFIX));
@@ -351,22 +358,42 @@ if ($vacation_setup || $vacation_setup_r
         } else {
             $vacation_msg = vacation_join($vacation_subject, $vacation_body, $vacation_headers);
         }
-        $vacation_msg_pipe = popen(sprintf(
-                  '%s -u %s %s %s %s',
-                  $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $WRITE_TO_CMD, $vacation_msg_file),
-            'w');
+        $pipe_cmd = sprintf(
+            '%s -u %s %s %s %s',
+            $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $WRITE_TO_CMD, $vacation_msg_in_file);
+        // fprintf($stderr, "\$pipe_cmd: %s<br>\n", $pipe_cmd);
+
+        $vacation_msg_pipe = popen($pipe_cmd, 'w');
         fwrite($vacation_msg_pipe, $vacation_msg);
         pclose($vacation_msg_pipe);
 
+        $pipe_cmd = sprintf(
+            '%s -u %s %s %s %s',
+            $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $WRITE_TO_CMD, $vacation_msg_file);
+        // fprintf($stderr, "\$pipe_cmd: %s<br>\n", $pipe_cmd);
+
+        $vacation_msg_pipe = popen($pipe_cmd, 'w');
+        if (!$FOOTER || $vacation_setup_raw || $x_wsv_raw) {
+            $full_msg = $vacation_msg;
+        } else {
+            $full_msg = rtrim(rtrim($vacation_msg)."\n".$FOOTER)."\n";
+        }
+        fwrite($vacation_msg_pipe, $full_msg);
+        pclose($vacation_msg_pipe);
+
         // Initialize vacation(1) if necessary.
         if (!test_readable($vacation_db_file, $user)) {
-            system(sprintf(
-                       '%s -u %s %s %s %s',
-                       $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $VACATION_CMD, $VACATION_INIT_OPTS));
-            $vacation_excl_pipe = popen(sprintf(
-                      '%s -u %s %s %s %s',
-                      $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $VACATION_CMD, $VACATION_EXLCUDE_OPTS),
-                'w');
+            $cmd = sprintf(
+                '%s -u %s %s %s %s',
+                $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $VACATION_CMD, $VACATION_INIT_OPTS);
+            // fprintf($stderr, "\$cmd: %s<br>\n", $cmd);
+            system($cmd);
+
+            $pipe_cmd = sprintf(
+                '%s -u %s %s %s %s',
+                $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $VACATION_CMD, $VACATION_EXLCUDE_OPTS);
+            // fprintf($stderr, "\$pipe_cmd: %s<br>\n", $pipe_cmd);
+            $vacation_excl_pipe = popen($pipe_cmd, 'w');
             fwrite($vacation_excl_pipe, sprintf("%s%s\n", $user, $DOMAIN_SUFFIX));
             if (!empty($user_alias)) {
                 fwrite($vacation_excl_pipe, sprintf("%s%s\n", $user_alias, $DOMAIN_SUFFIX));
@@ -387,31 +414,37 @@ if ($vacation_setup || $vacation_setup_r
                 }
                 $use_fs[] = $fs;
             }
-            $forward_file_pipe = popen(sprintf(
-                      '%s -u %s %s %s %s',
-                      $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $WRITE_TO_CMD, $forward_file),
-                'w');
+            $pipe_cmd = sprintf(
+                '%s -u %s %s %s %s',
+                $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $WRITE_TO_CMD, $forward_file);
+            // fprintf($stderr, "\$pipe_cmd: %s<br>\n", $pipe_cmd);
+            $forward_file_pipe = popen($pipe_cmd, 'w');
             fwrite($forward_file_pipe, implode(", ", $use_fs)."\n");
             pclose($forward_file_pipe);
             if (!empty($VACATION_FORWARD_EXT_ENTRY)) {
                 foreach ($FORWARD_EXTENSIONS as $fe) {
-                    $cmd = sprintf(
+                    $pipe_cmd = sprintf(
                         '%s -u %s %s %s %s%s',
                         $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $WRITE_TO_CMD, $forward_file, $fe);
-                    $forward_file_pipe = popen($cmd, 'w');
+                    // fprintf($stderr, "\$pipe_cmd: %s<br>\n", $pipe_cmd);
+                    $forward_file_pipe = popen($pipe_cmd, 'w');
                     fwrite($forward_file_pipe, $VACATION_FORWARD_EXT_ENTRY."\n");
                     pclose($forward_file_pipe);
                 }
             }
         } else {
-            system(sprintf(
-                       '%s -u %s %s %s %s',
-                       $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $RM_CMD, $forward_file));
+            $cmd = sprintf(
+                '%s -u %s %s %s %s',
+                $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $RM_CMD, $forward_file);
+            // fprintf($stderr, "\$cmd: %s<br>\n", $cmd);
+            system($cmd);
             if (!empty($VACATION_FORWARD_EXT_ENTRY)) {
                 foreach ($FORWARD_EXTENSIONS as $fe) {
-                    system(sprintf(
-                               '%s -u %s %s %s %s%s',
-                               $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $RM_CMD, $forward_file, $fe));
+                    $cmd = sprintf(
+                        '%s -u %s %s %s %s%s',
+                        $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $RM_CMD, $forward_file, $fe);
+                    // fprintf($stderr, "\$cmd: %s<br>\n", $cmd);
+                    system($cmd);
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -584,6 +617,7 @@ if ($x_wsv_raw || $EXPERT_ENABLED)
 // echo ('<pre>'."\n");
 // echo ($vacation_list_cmd);
 // echo ('</pre>'."\n");
+// fprintf($stderr, "\$vacation_list_cmd: %s<br>\n", $vacation_list_cmd);
 $vacation_ausgabe = popen ($vacation_list_cmd, 'r');
 $vacation_list = stream_get_contents($vacation_ausgabe);
 pclose($vacation_ausgabe);
diff --git a/lib/config.php b/lib/config.php
--- a/lib/config.php
+++ b/lib/config.php
@@ -47,182 +47,13 @@
 
 // Administrators can modify the settings of all users.
 $ADMIN_USERS = Array(
-    'js',
     'sw',
-    'wscherer',
-    'admin',
-    'lm',
-    'sc',
     );
 
 // User aliases for vacation
 $USER_ALIASES = Array(
     // auto-generated |:conf:| /etc/srvconfig/mail/userdb-user-for-mx.sh --php-alias
     'admin' => 'ws.admin',
-    'am' => 'andreas.mogel',
-    'ar' => 'steffen.arndt',
-    'av' => 'andreas.vehe',
-    'aw' => 'anne-marie.wolf',
-    'ba' => 'sandra.bauer',
-    'be' => 'bernhard.etzelmueller',
-    'bk' => 'benjamin.kirner',
-    'bm' => 'michael.bayer',
-    'bn' => 'bert.nebelung',
-    'br' => 'robert.biedermann',
-    'bs' => 'bianca.sattes',
-    'bt' => 'torhan.bartel',
-    'bw' => 'bruno.wendel',
-    'ch' => 'christian.heid',
-    'chh' => 'christian.hoerner',
-    'ck' => 'christian.kraemer',
-    'cl' => 'christian.lindner',
-    'cm' => 'claus.mayer',
-    'co' => 'concepcion.ocana-moreno',
-    'cp' => 'carolin.prinz',
-    'cr' => 'christian.roeding',
-    'ct' => 'carsten.thieme',
-    'de' => 'dieter.ebert',
-    'dg' => 'daniel.graf',
-    'dk' => 'david.kuehnl',
-    'dl' => 'marek.dluzynski',
-    'dm' => 'dmitri.riss',
-    'do' => 'martin.dolinski',
-    'dr' => 'dieter.reuthal',
-    'ds' => 'david.stroebel',
-    'du' => 'denis.uhde',
-    'dz' => 'dominik.zimmermann',
-    'em' => 'beate.etzelmueller',
-    'en' => 'ellen.nicklisch',
-    'es' => 'edith.schneider',
-    'fg' => 'guido.fischer',
-    'fj' => 'frank.jaeger',
-    'fm' => 'frank.mueller',
-    'fr' => 'frank.richter',
-    'fs' => 'frank.stiegler',
-    'fu' => 'friedrich.ullrich',
-    'gs' => 'gabriele.schoenwald',
-    'gw' => 'gudrun.wende',
-    'ha' => 'ralf.haubrich',
-    'hb' => 'harry.bitterer',
-    'he' => 'heiko.simeth',
-    'hh' => 'helmut.henning',
-    'hl' => 'holger.lucke',
-    'hm' => 'sebastian.herrmann',
-    'ho' => 'bernd.hoffmann',
-    'hp' => 'holger.poeschel',
-    'hs' => 'hubert.snoppek',
-    'iv' => 'irene.vehe',
-    'ja' => 'jan.reuss',
-    'jdienst' => 'johannes.dienst',
-    'jh' => 'johannes.schaefer',
-    'jj' => 'jens.jirschik',
-    'jm' => 'juergen.mueller',
-    'jn' => 'jochen.neumeier',
-    'jo' => 'jonathan.stroebel',
-    'jp' => 'johannes.perli',
-    'jr' => 'juergen.reuthal',
-    'js' => 'juergen.schroll',
-    'ju' => 'justin.schwarz',
-    'jw' => 'jan.von.wietersheim',
-    'kf' => 'katharina.fischer',
-    'kk' => 'karl-heinz.kaiser',
-    'kl' => 'rolf.kluge',
-    'kn' => 'birgit.knaus',
-    'kr' => 'karin.reuthal',
-    'ks' => 'karol.schuster',
-    'lm' => 'michael.letsch',
-    'ln' => 'lutz.nicklisch',
-    'lotte' => 'lotte.etzelmueller',
-    'ma' => 'michael.arz',
-    'mb' => 'marika.burggraf',
-    'md' => 'markus.dusel',
-    'me' => 'marco.melber',
-    'mf' => 'frank.macha',
-    'mg' => 'martin.glaessner',
-    'mi' => 'maria.interrante',
-    'mj' => 'mandy.junghans',
-    'mk' => 'manuela.kuenne',
-    'ml' => 'markus.ludwig',
-    'mm' => 'mario.manfrini',
-    'mo' => 'karlheinz.mog',
-    'mp' => 'marco.pohlenz',
-    'mr' => 'marianne.rose',
-    'ms' => 'martin.seiler',
-    'mt' => 'marcus.thoene',
-    'mu' => 'jochen.muenz',
-    'mw' => 'mario.weiler',
-    'mz' => 'martin.zeptner',
-    'nd' => 'nadine.dehler',
-    'ne' => 'nina.etzelmueller',
-    'ng' => 'norbert.goess',
-    'nm' => 'nikolei.mauckner',
-    'no' => 'norbert.wirsching',
-    'nt' => 'norbert.zengei',
-    'nw' => 'niklas.weickert',
-    'ob' => 'ottmar.boettcher',
-    'os' => 'oliver.schmidt',
-    'ow' => 'odile.weide',
-    'pb' => 'praktikant.brehna',
-    'pf' => 'patrick.froehlich',
-    'pm' => 'praktikant.marktsteft',
-    'pn' => 'praktikant.nuernberg',
-    'po' => 'iris.posch',
-    'pp' => 'pia.lentowitsch',
-    'pr' => 'raphael.provazi',
-    'ps' => 'peter.scheck',
-    'pt' => 'philipp.ptak',
-    'pw' => 'peter.weigand',
-    'qm' => 'uwe.hertlein',
-    'ra' => 'andreas.reichelt',
-    'rb' => 'rene.becker',
-    'rc' => 'roman.conrad',
-    're' => 'daniel.reuther',
-    'rf' => 'ronni.freitag',
-    'rh' => 'raina.hesse',
-    'rj' => 'julian.rueckel',
-    'rk' => 'roland.kopitsch',
-    'rp' => 'renate.paul',
-    'rs' => 'simone.ruetzel',
-    'ry' => 'manfred.rychlick',
-    'sb' => 'denis.steinberg',
-    'sc' => 'markus.schmitt',
-    'sd' => 'serem.didin',
-    'se' => 'daniel.seemann',
-    'sf' => 'sebastian.fick',
-    'sh' => 'stefan.holzmann',
-    'si' => 'simon.henning',
-    'sj' => 'joerg.schmittlein',
-    'sk' => 'sandra.kleinschrod',
-    'sl' => 'jonas.schroll',
-    'sm' => 'stefan.mueller',
-    'sn' => 'nico.slansky',
-    'sr' => 'steffen.reichart',
-    'st' => 'mario.stelzl',
-    'su' => 'uwe.schaaf',
-    'sv' => 'benjamin.schraven',
-    'sw' => 'wolfgang.scherer',
-    'tb' => 'thomas.bachmann',
-    'te' => 'tim.etzelmueller',
-    'tg' => 'thomas.gruebl',
-    'th' => 'thorsten.heim',
-    'tm' => 'thorsten.manger',
-    'ts' => 'thomas.steinruck',
-    'ug' => 'ute.gumler',
-    'us' => 'ursula.schleif',
-    'vk' => 'volker.kohlhepp',
-    'vr' => 'volker.reihs',
-    'vs' => 'vitalij.stein',
-    'we' => 'gerd.weber',
-    'wg' => 'gabriele.watl',
-    'wh' => 'waldemar.hoppe',
-    'wi' => 'ralf.winkler',
-    'wk' => 'wolfgang.kirchner',
-    'wn' => 'wolfgang.neumayr',
-    'wr' => 'sascha.wendrich',
-    'wscherer' => 'shop.admin',
-    'wv' => 'werner.vehe',
-    'xms' => 'martin.schoenberg',
-    'yh' => 'yves.hensler',
     // |:conf:| end
     );
 
@@ -232,58 +63,8 @@
     'clamav',
     'postman',
     'vmail',
-    'wscherer',
-    'julian',
-    'reserviert2',
-    'reserviert11',
-    'reserviert12',
-    'reserviert30',
-    'mbak',
-    'spam',
-    'ws-gruppe',
-    'chh',
-    'kk',
     //  auto-generated |:conf:| /etc/srvconfig/mail/userdb-user-for-mx.sh x | sed "s,^,    ',;s/$/',/"
     'bn',
-    'cm',
-    'cp',
-    'cr',
-    'de',
-    'dg',
-    'ds',
-    'fg',
-    'fs',
-    'hb',
-    'hp',
-    'jm',
-    'jp',
-    'jr',
-    'jw',
-    'kk',
-    'kr',
-    'lm',
-    'me',
-    'mf',
-    'ml',
-    'mm',
-    'mo',
-    'ms',
-    'mt',
-    'mz',
-    'nd',
-    'pw',
-    'rb',
-    're',
-    'rf',
-    'sb',
-    'sf',
-    'sl',
-    'sv',
-    'tm',
-    'ts',
-    'ug',
-    'we',
-    'wn',
     // |:conf:| end
     );
 
@@ -307,6 +88,7 @@
 $FORMAIL_CMD = '/usr/bin/formail';
 $VACATION_CMD = '/usr/bin/vacation';
 $VACATION_MSG_FILE = '.vacation.msg';
+$VACATION_MSG_IN_FILE = '.vacation.msg.in';
 $VACATION_DB_FILE = '.vacation.db';
 $VACATION_INIT_OPTS = '-i -r 1';
 $VACATION_EXLCUDE_OPTS = '-x';
@@ -330,6 +112,9 @@
     'in-reply-to',
     );
 
+$FOOTER = trim('
+');
+
 //
 // :ide-menu: Emacs IDE Menu - Buffer @BUFFER@
 // . M-x `eIDE-menu' ()(eIDE-menu "z")
diff --git a/lib/util.php b/lib/util.php
--- a/lib/util.php
+++ b/lib/util.php
@@ -29,11 +29,12 @@ require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../li
 
 function test_readable($file, $user)
 {
-    global $SUDO_CMD, $SUDO_OPT_H, $TEST_CMD;
+    global $SUDO_CMD, $SUDO_OPT_H, $TEST_CMD, $stderr;
 
     $test_cmd = sprintf(
         "%s -u %s %s %s '%s'",
         $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $TEST_CMD, $file);
+    // fprintf($stderr, "\$test_cmd: %s<br>\n", $test_cmd);
     $test_ausgabe = popen ($test_cmd, 'r');
     $result = stream_get_contents($test_ausgabe);
     pclose($test_ausgabe);
@@ -42,11 +43,12 @@ function test_readable($file, $user)
 
 function cat_file($file, $user)
 {
-    global $SUDO_CMD, $SUDO_OPT_H, $CAT_CMD;
+    global $SUDO_CMD, $SUDO_OPT_H, $CAT_CMD, $stderr;
 
     $cat_cmd = sprintf(
         "%s -u %s %s %s '%s'",
         $SUDO_CMD, $user, $SUDO_OPT_H, $CAT_CMD, $file);
+    // fprintf($stderr, "\$cat_cmd: %s<br>\n", $cat_cmd);
     $cat_ausgabe = popen ($cat_cmd, 'r');
     $result = stream_get_contents($cat_ausgabe);
     pclose($cat_ausgabe);
diff --git a/lib/ws-vacation-sudo.in b/lib/ws-vacation-sudo.in
--- a/lib/ws-vacation-sudo.in
+++ b/lib/ws-vacation-sudo.in
@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ Cmnd_Alias VACATION=/usr/bin/vacation *
 Cmnd_Alias RM_FORWARD=/bin/rm -f /home/*/.forward
 Cmnd_Alias RM_FORWARD_EXT=/bin/rm -f /home/*/.forward+*
 Cmnd_Alias TEST_FORWARD=@base_dir@/lib/test_readable.sh /home/*/.forward
-Cmnd_Alias TEST_VACATION_MSG=@base_dir@/lib/test_readable.sh /home/*/.vacation.msg
+Cmnd_Alias TEST_VACATION_MSG=@base_dir@/lib/test_readable.sh /home/*/.vacation.msg*
 Cmnd_Alias TEST_VACATION_DB=@base_dir@/lib/test_readable.sh /home/*/.vacation.db
 Cmnd_Alias GET_FORWARD=/bin/cat /home/*/.forward
-Cmnd_Alias GET_VACATION_MSG=/bin/cat /home/*/.vacation.msg
+Cmnd_Alias GET_VACATION_MSG=/bin/cat /home/*/.vacation.msg*
 Cmnd_Alias PUT_FORWARD=@base_dir@/lib/write_to.sh /home/*/.forward
 Cmnd_Alias PUT_FORWARD_EXT=@base_dir@/lib/write_to.sh /home/*/.forward+*
-Cmnd_Alias PUT_VACATION_MSG=@base_dir@/lib/write_to.sh /home/*/.vacation.msg
+Cmnd_Alias PUT_VACATION_MSG=@base_dir@/lib/write_to.sh /home/*/.vacation.msg*
 WWWRUN ALL=(NOTROOT) NOPASSWD: VACATION
 WWWRUN ALL=(NOTROOT) NOPASSWD: RM_FORWARD
 WWWRUN ALL=(NOTROOT) NOPASSWD: RM_FORWARD_EXT