Am 19.04.2016 um 20:55 schrieb Tom Hendrikx:
> On 19-04-16 20:01, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
>> I'm using Dovecot's sieve extensions quite happily, they are very good!
>> Thanks for all who worked on them. I have a question that maybe is
>> appropriate for a sieve-specific discussion list, so if there is one I
>> should post to instead, please let me know:
>>
>>
>> I've poked through the sieve vacation RFC and all the documentation I
>> can find and I cannot figure out how to do this. It's more-or-less not
>> the intent of sieve's vacation, so perhaps it's more of a "you can't get
>> there from here" situation, but maybe folks here have an idea:
>>
>> I am (ab)?using sieve vacation to send an automated response at all
>> times to all senders who put me in the To line, every 90 days, which
>> explains my lack of responsiveness and to explain who else might be
>> better contact. (I have hundreds of emails sent to me to which I will
>> never have time to respond, and probably should have been routed to
>> someone else at my organization anyway.)
>>
>> However, I *don't* want my regular correspondents to receive this
>> autoreply. I'd thus like to seed the database with known individuals
>> I'm corresponding with to pretend they've already received the
>> autoresponder.
>>
>
> You shouldn't try to force feed the dupes files, that's a hack: the
> dupes files has no public api so you probably shouldnt be messing with
> it directly.
> A proper solution would be to include a list of excluded addresses in
> the sieve script, and exempt those from the autoresponder, maybe
> something like this:
>
> require "envelope";
> require "variables";
>
> set :lower "whitelist" "first@example,com sec...@example.com";
>
> if envelope :matches "from" "*" {
> set :lower "sender" "${0}";
> if string :matches "${sender}" "${whitelist}" {
> # do nothing, sender is on whitelist
> } else{
> # do regular autoresponder stuff
> }
> }
>
> The whitelist variable could be auto generated and updated from your
> address book or archive box parser.
>
> I have no idea if this actually scales. You could also implement the
> whitelist variable using extdata
> (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Plugins/Extdata), or
> outsource the complete whitelist check to an external program (a trivial
> script in a real programming language) using extprograms's "execute"
> (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Plugins/Extprograms).
>
> Good luck!
>
> Kind regards,
> Tom
>
at sometime in the future
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-sieve-external-lists-10
may solve such cases
Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer
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