dovecot - Jul 2009 - Sieve problem: No vacation message when mail is addressed to an alias of the mailbox.

Hi,
I?m facing here a wierd problem: We have a vacation messaging system 
using sieve. When activated the system forwards incomming messages to a 
given address and sents an out of office reply to the sender. This works 
like a charm when the mail is addressed to mailbox at domain. When the 
incomming mail ist addressed to alias.to.mailbox at domain the mail is 
delivered to the mailbox, it is forwarded to the given reciepient but 
there is no auto reply going out to the sender!
Our setup: CentOS 5.2 + postfix 2.5.6 + dovecot 1.1.11 with domain and 
accounts stored in a mysql database.
The script:

require ["fileinto", "vacation"];
redirect "mailbox2 at domain";
keep;
vacation
         :days 1
         :subject "Out of Office reply"
"
The auto reply text.

";

Any advice is welcome,

Best regards,

  Mike

On 07/13/2009 10:06 AM M. Bobkiewicz wrote:
> Hi,
> I?m facing here a wierd problem: We have a vacation messaging system 
> using sieve. When activated the system forwards incomming messages to a 
> given address and sents an out of office reply to the sender. This works 
> like a charm when the mail is addressed to mailbox at domain. When the 
> incomming mail ist addressed to alias.to.mailbox at domain the mail is 
> delivered to the mailbox, it is forwarded to the given reciepient but 
> there is no auto reply going out to the sender!
> Our setup: CentOS 5.2 + postfix 2.5.6 + dovecot 1.1.11 with domain and 
> accounts stored in a mysql database.
> The script:
> 
> require ["fileinto", "vacation"];
> redirect "mailbox2 at domain";
> keep;
> vacation
>          :days 1
>          :subject "Out of Office reply"
> "
> The auto reply text.
> 
> ";
> 
> Any advice is welcome,
> 
You have to add the alias addresses to the :addresses list. For example:

    require ["fileinto", "vacation"];
    redirect "mailbox2 at domain";
    keep;
    vacation
         :days 1
         :subject "Out of Office reply"
         :addresses ["1st.alias at domain", "2nd.alias at
domain"]
    "
    The auto reply text.

    ";

See also: <http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve#Vacation_auto-reply-1>


Regards,
Pascal
-- 
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On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, M. Bobkiewicz wrote:
> vacation
>        :days 1
>        :subject "Out of Office reply"
> "
> The auto reply text.
>
> ";
>
> Any advice is welcome,
You have to enumerate all addresses in the ":address" tag of vacation.
It's actually a real pain here.

Bye,

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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Pascal Volk schrieb:
> On 07/13/2009 10:06 AM M. Bobkiewicz wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I?m facing here a wierd problem: We have a vacation messaging system 
>> using sieve. When activated the system forwards incomming messages to a
>> given address and sents an out of office reply to the sender. This
works
>> like a charm when the mail is addressed to mailbox at domain. When the 
>> incomming mail ist addressed to alias.to.mailbox at domain the mail is 
>> delivered to the mailbox, it is forwarded to the given reciepient but 
>> there is no auto reply going out to the sender!
>> Our setup: CentOS 5.2 + postfix 2.5.6 + dovecot 1.1.11 with domain and 
>> accounts stored in a mysql database.
>> The script:
>>
>> require ["fileinto", "vacation"];
>> redirect "mailbox2 at domain";
>> keep;
>> vacation
>>          :days 1
>>          :subject "Out of Office reply"
>> "
>> The auto reply text.
>>
>> ";
>>
>> Any advice is welcome,
>>
> 
> You have to add the alias addresses to the :addresses list. For example:
> 
>     require ["fileinto", "vacation"];
>     redirect "mailbox2 at domain";
>     keep;
>     vacation
>          :days 1
>          :subject "Out of Office reply"
>          :addresses ["1st.alias at domain", "2nd.alias at
domain"]
>     "
>     The auto reply text.
> 
>     ";
> 
> See also: <http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve#Vacation_auto-reply-1>
> 

First of all thanks for the hint, it works. Second, nice to see the 
discussion, we did have the same here at my location when I told my boss 
about the reason for the error...

Regards,

   Mike