dovecot - Apr 2015 - speaking of sieve scripts... how to selectively not send vacation autoreply

Don't need to block anyone like in the "Re: Dovecot Oy merger with 
Open-Xchange AG" thread, but when I have my vacation recipie active,
I'd like
it to NOT reply to certain addresses.

I tried the following, you can see the section with

    if header :contains "addressIdontwant at repliedtoo.tld"

is commented out, once I'd added that section, no Vacation messages went out
at all.? Googling and reading the wiki and recipie suggestions doesn't make 
it clear how to exempt a list of addresses from ever receiving a vacation 
response.? Suggestions on additional reading or solutions?

    require ["fileinto", "vacation"];
    if header :comparator "i;ascii-casemap" :contains
"Subject" "**SPAM**"? {
    ??????? fileinto "Trash";
    ??????? stop;
    }

    #if header :contains "addressIdontwant at repliedtoo.tld" {
    #?????? stop;
    #}

    vacation
    ? # Reply at most once a day to a same sender
    ? :days 1
    ? :subject "Changes to email addresses effective Jan 01/15"
    ? # List of recipient addresses which are included in the auto replying.
    ? # If a mail's recipient is not on this list, no vacation reply is sent
for
    it.
    ? :addresses ["user at repliedtoo.tld"]

This is on a Dovecot 1.x system that is slated for an upgrade soon.

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On 4.4.2015 10:02, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> Don't need to block anyone like in the "Re: Dovecot Oy merger with
> Open-Xchange AG" thread, but when I have my vacation recipie active,
I'd like
> it to NOT reply to certain addresses.
The commented out condition in the rule you posted seems syntactically 
wrong to me (not sure, never used Dovecot 1.x so can't rule out the 
possibility it's valid there.) Also I think you can find answer to your 
question in one of RH's posts in the thread you mentioned.

On 4/4/2015 10:02 AM, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> Don't need to block anyone like in the "Re: Dovecot Oy merger with
> Open-Xchange AG" thread, but when I have my vacation recipie active,
I'd like
> it to NOT reply to certain addresses.
>
> I tried the following, you can see the section with
>
>     if header :contains "addressIdontwant at repliedtoo.tld"
>
> is commented out, once I'd added that section, no Vacation messages
went out
> at all.  Googling and reading the wiki and recipie suggestions doesn't
make
> it clear how to exempt a list of addresses from ever receiving a vacation 
> response.  Suggestions on additional reading or solutions?
>
>     require ["fileinto", "vacation"];
>     if header :comparator "i;ascii-casemap" :contains
"Subject" "**SPAM**"  {
>             fileinto "Trash";
>             stop;
>     }
>
>     #if header :contains "addressIdontwant at repliedtoo.tld" {
>     #       stop;
>     #}
>
>     vacation
>       # Reply at most once a day to a same sender
>       :days 1
>       :subject "Changes to email addresses effective Jan 01/15"
>       # List of recipient addresses which are included in the auto
replying.
>       # If a mail's recipient is not on this list, no vacation reply is
sent for
>     it.
>       :addresses ["user at repliedtoo.tld"]
>
> This is on a Dovecot 1.x system that is slated for an upgrade soon.
You should really inspect your log files or test the scripts with the
sieve-test command line tool. There is a syntax error in the part you
commented out:

error: the header test requires 2 positional argument(s), but 1 is/are
specified.

At delivery, this means that the script is not executed at all and the
message is just filed into INBOX.

Regards,

Stephan.

On 4 Apr 2015 at 12:19, Stephan Bosch wrote:
> >     #if header :contains "addressIdontwant at
repliedtoo.tld" {
> >     #       stop;
> >     #}
> >
> >     vacation
> >       # Reply at most once a day to a same sender
> 
> You should really inspect your log files or test the scripts with the
> sieve-test command line tool. There is a syntax error in the part you
> commented out:
> 
> error: the header test requires 2 positional argument(s), but 1 is/are
> specified.
> 
> At delivery, this means that the script is not executed at all and the
> message is just filed into INBOX.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stephan.
I wasn't even aware of the sieve-test command, that'll really come in
handy,
thanks for that tip

I believe I based my entry on the 

    if header :contains "X-Spam-Level" "**********" {
      discard;
      stop;
    }

here and until you mentioned it, I did not realize the *'s were a second 
argument, I'd assumed it as part and parcel of the same argument.

wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Examples#Spam.2BAC8-Virus_rules


I'll try the recipie RH posted

    if address :is ["From", "Sender"] ["h.reindl at
thelounge.net",
    "nick.z.edwards at gmail.com"]
    {
      discard;
    }

modified as below

if address :is ["From", "Sender"] ["addressIdontwant at
repliedtoo.tld",
"otheraddressIdontwant at repliedtoo.tld"]
{
  stop;
}

-- 
Harondel J. Sibble 
Sibble Computer Consulting Ltd.
Creating Solutions for the small and medium business computer user.
harondel at pdscc.com (use pgp keyid 0x3CC3CFCE not 0x3AD5C11D) 
http://www.pdscc.com
Blog: http://www.pdscc.com/blog
(604) 739-3709 (voice)