[Dovecot] Sieve problem: No vacation message when mail is addressed to an alias of the mailbox.

[M. Bobkiewicz]

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