On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Antonis Rizopoulos wrote: > I was trying to setup postfix to send auto reply messages using procmail > with this script : > http://www.opensourcehowto.org/uploads/scripts/vacation.txt > but I can't get it work. I also tried the *.forward* files but no luck. > So I think procmail and .forward files are for local system users mail > deliveries, not virtual (without any system home directory), or I don't > know how to do this.
Read http://www.postfix.org/virtual.8.html; specifically the section titled HISTORY. > In my setup I have virtual users and I use Courier-IMAP for M.D.A. > My users are stored in Courier's database. > > Is there any way to allow a user to activate/deactivate an auto-reply > message by sending an email to himself with "special" subject and/or body ? Probably, but that is well out of the scope of this mailing list. FWIW, many people have had success using Dovecot's LDA to deliver mail which plays nicely with sieve scripts that include vacation (auto-reply) functionality. -- Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>
