Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-12-02 Thread Frank Cusack
On December 2, 2009 2:31:12 AM -0800 Frank Cusack wrote: If you want to use this patch, you might want to consider using a magic number (e.g. 999) for :days instead of 0, so that users unaware of the magic number can't easily send unthrottled vacation responses. Just change the "Just" is

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-12-02 Thread Frank Cusack
On November 29, 2009 10:15:55 AM -0800 Frank Cusack wrote: Easy enough for me to patch the sieve code which is likely what I'll do. Here it is. I decided to store the timestamp (dup) info even though it isn't used when deciding to send a response, because 1) it saves the addresses that vacat

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-30 Thread Frank Cusack
Just wanted to followup to encourage anyone who thought this was a stupid idea to speak up. I know in the past we (other companies I've been at) have always had an autoresponder program and the MTA was set to deliver to that program. I see no reason for that to not just be sieve. -frank On Nov

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-29 Thread Frank Cusack
On November 24, 2009 11:44:52 AM +0800 Patrick Nagel wrote: set 'days' to 1, there was an outcry by other project managers that the contacts would probably not read the auto reply on the first time, or forget about it immediately, and then send more mails during the day. I had a lengthy discussi

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-29 Thread Frank Cusack
On November 24, 2009 11:44:52 AM +0800 Patrick Nagel wrote: Someone will probably ask why an auto reply to the same person more than once a day might be necessary. In my case I want an autoresponder for a shared email account. info@ "Your message has been received, thank you blah bah". Easy

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-24 Thread Thomas Berezansky
Fire the new manager, eh? Now you need to keep TWO old addresses working for the same position! Stop compounding the issue! ;) Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Charles Marcus : On 11/24/2009, Patrick Nagel (patrick.na...@star-group.net) wrote: 2. Add the x-ma

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-24 Thread Charles Marcus
On 11/24/2009, Thomas Harold (thomas-li...@nybeta.com) wrote: > 3. (slightly different) Have the vacation auto-reply set and also use > the sieve redirect method after the vacation message gets processed? > > redirect :copy "newmana...@example.com"; Different how? Thats was my #1 option, combined

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-24 Thread Charles Marcus
On 11/24/2009, Patrick Nagel (patrick.na...@star-group.net) wrote: >> 2. Add the x-managers account to your replacements email client, so they >> can check it as well as theirs. > 2. is what we did. >> In either case you could also enable the vacation message notification >> if you like, but once

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-24 Thread Thomas Harold
On 11/24/2009 6:27 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: On 11/23/2009, Patrick Nagel (patrick.na...@star-group.net) wrote: Yes, that was my first proposal, but that was also rejected harshly by the other project managers. They wanted to have some "transit time" in which the replacement guy would still acce

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-24 Thread Patrick Nagel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Charles, On 2009-11-24 19:27, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 11/23/2009, Patrick Nagel (patrick.na...@star-group.net) wrote: >> Yes, that was my first proposal, but that was also rejected harshly by >> the other project managers. They wanted to have so

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-24 Thread Charles Marcus
On 11/23/2009, Patrick Nagel (patrick.na...@star-group.net) wrote: > Yes, that was my first proposal, but that was also rejected harshly by > the other project managers. They wanted to have some "transit time" in > which the replacement guy would still access the leaving guy's mailbox. > > They fe

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-24 Thread Stephan Bosch
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:54 PM, Patrick Nagel wrote: Shouldn't that be more like: reject "this guy is gone"; keep; Yes, that was my first proposal, but that was also rejected harshly by the other project managers. They wanted to have some "transit time" in which the replace

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:10 PM, Patrick Nagel wrote: >> Ah, but that's why I had the "keep" there! The reject message of >> course could have been nicer and said how the guy is gone but this >> address will be read for a bit longer but anyway stop sending mail >> here. > > Oh... yeah. I never got p

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-23 Thread Patrick Nagel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 2009-11-24 11:58, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:54 PM, Patrick Nagel wrote: > >>> Shouldn't that be more like: >>> >>> reject "this guy is gone"; keep; >> >> Yes, that was my first proposal, but that was also rejected harshly

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:54 PM, Patrick Nagel wrote: >> Shouldn't that be more like: >> >> reject "this guy is gone"; >> keep; > > Yes, that was my first proposal, but that was also rejected harshly by > the other project managers. They wanted to have some "transit time" in > which the replacement

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-23 Thread Patrick Nagel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Timo, On 2009-11-24 11:50, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:44 PM, Patrick Nagel wrote: > >> Someone will probably ask why an auto reply to the same person more than >> once a day might be necessary. This is why I needed it: >> A proj

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:44 PM, Patrick Nagel wrote: > Someone will probably ask why an auto reply to the same person more than > once a day might be necessary. This is why I needed it: > A project manager was leaving the company, and the contacts writing him > had to be informed that they should wr

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-23 Thread Patrick Nagel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 2009-11-24 00:38, Frank Cusack wrote: > On November 23, 2009 1:19:00 PM +0100 Rene Bakkum > wrote: >>Is there an option to for example >> auto-reply on every mail that is sendto @domain.com? > > The part of this question that was overlooke

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-23 Thread Seth Mattinen
Rene Bakkum wrote: I don't like catch-all addresses either, and I have almost never used them myself. But our customers seems to like them sometimes, so I can't ignore their wishes. You can't do it with Sieve 'vacation'. Listing the exact address is required. ~Seth

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-23 Thread Frank Cusack
On November 23, 2009 1:19:00 PM +0100 Rene Bakkum wrote: Is there an option to for example auto-reply on every mail that is sendto @domain.com? The part of this question that was overlooked is "on every mail". It would be nice if '0' days meant respond to every message. Alternatively, can

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-23 Thread Rene Bakkum
Thanks for all the response. I understand the desire to have a catch-all address, I used to do it myself a few years ago. But the aggravation eventually caused me to reevaluate whether it was worth all of the dictionary attack spam. So I setup aliases in postfix for all of the addresses tha

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-23 Thread Thomas Harold
On 11/23/2009 7:19 AM, Rene Bakkum wrote: Hello all, I am trying to get my vacation messages to work correctly. In general it works like how I want, and replies when a message is arived to for example i...@domain.com, but I have some problems to get my vacation message to work on catch-all boxes

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-23 Thread Charles Marcus
On 11/23/2009, Pascal Volk wrote: > No, a 'Catch-all-vacation' reply is not possible. And is a horrible idea anyway...

Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-23 Thread Pascal Volk
On 11/23/2009 01:19 PM Rene Bakkum wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to get my vacation messages to work correctly. In general it > works like how I want, and replies when a message is arived to for > example i...@domain.com, but I have some problems to get my vacation > message to work on ca

[Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

2009-11-23 Thread Rene Bakkum
Hello all, I am trying to get my vacation messages to work correctly. In general it works like how I want, and replies when a message is arived to for example i...@domain.com, but I have some problems to get my vacation message to work on catch-all boxes. Is there an option to for example aut