[Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve

[Patrick Nagel]

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Hi Charles,

On 2009-11-24 19:27, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 11/23/2009, Patrick Nagel (patrick.nagel at 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 felt that just deactivating the mailbox and rejecting mails would
>> be "rude".
> 
> I think you're way overcomplicating things...

I wish it was me... ;)

> What I would do is either:
> 
> 1. Add an alias to the x-managers account that forwards all incoming
> mail to his replacement, or
> 
> 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 per day is plenty in this case since someone else
> is (or should be) reading the mail).

Well, as I said, they weren't satisfied with that.

Additionally most mail does not come in during our office hours
(different time zone), so when one of those contacts would have been
mailing away to the guy who left, because he didn't read the (single)
auto reply, it would have gone unnoticed for quite some time. Sure, the
mail could then still be forwarded to the replacement...

In any case, as I explained, it wasn't my preferred solution - but it's
what was asked for. It would be great if sieve 'vacation' allowed to
optionally disable the max. once per day auto reply thing.

Patrick.

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