dovecot - Aug 2007 - lda: vacation auto-reply for a virtual address

Hi, I am using Dovecot to manage a complex virtual mailbox setup.
It's all working splendidly, thanks to the Dovecot LDA.

This morning, however, I needed to create a vacation-style autoreply
for one of the virtual addresses. I made use of cmusieve,
authored a little sieve script, and had it working in no time...
until I discovered how limited sieve's vacation module is. Most
importantly: it's hardcoded to use the Return-Path of a message, but
in this very case, I need to actually use the address in the from
header. So I had to give up on sieve and am now looking for another
solution, but without much success.

Given that mail is delivered by the Dovecot LDA, is there any way to
make deliver pass it off to e.g. procmail in such a way that
$HOME is set to /srv/vmail/domain.org/localpart, so that procmail
can find the .procmailrc?

Cheers,

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On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, martin f krafft wrote:
> until I discovered how limited sieve's vacation module is. Most
> importantly: it's hardcoded to use the Return-Path of a message, but
> in this very case, I need to actually use the address in the from
What's the reason of not using Return-Path?
When it is missing, you can search the archives for a patch of mine, that 
uses the -f argument in this case. -> And the reply, why NOT to use From 
for sending replies ;-)
> Given that mail is delivered by the Dovecot LDA, is there any way to
> make deliver pass it off to e.g. procmail in such a way that
> $HOME is set to /srv/vmail/domain.org/localpart, so that procmail
> can find the .procmailrc?
Of course, you could patch Dovecot LDA. It is rather straight forward.

Another idea is to setup your MTA to deliver each mail to two maildrops, 
traditionally this is called ".forward" files, because in sendmail you
can
create a file ".forward" in the user's homedir and put all the
mail
forwards there, e.g.:

\account
"|vacation -a alias1 -a alias2 account"

\account is necessary to file the mail into the local maildrop (INBOX), 
too; otherwise it would only run vacation and trash the mail afterwards.

But, such program will normally use Return-Path as well.

Bye,

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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