[Dovecot] simple steps with sieve

[Peter Borg]

I've been looking at various client fixes to add :from, but ultimately the
better solution would be in sieve/managesieve as although I have a single
webmail solution I'm also offering imap access.

A really simple solution (for me) would be for sieve to copy the :address to
:from. I may even implement this as a hack and recompile... 

Still doesn't fix responses to expanded system aliases. That's a whole
different problem though, I suspect.

Peter.

-----Original Message-----
From: dovecot-bounces+dovecot=peter-b.org at dovecot.org
[mailto:dovecot-bounces+dovecot=peter-b.org at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Gavin
Hamill
Sent: 22 October 2009 11:03
To: Stephan Bosch
Cc: 'Dovecot Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] simple steps with sieve

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 17:34 +0200, Stephan Bosch wrote:
> Peter Borg wrote:
> > I find it really hard to believe that Gavin and I are the only ones to
hit
> > this issue. That said I've probably been hacking at this particular
system
> > too long and am missing something very obvious....!
> > 
> You're definitely not the only one. Finding a good solution is difficult 
> however. The intention of this check within the vacation action is to 
> prevent spurious vacation responses to for example Bcc:'ed deliveries 
> (and perhaps multi-drop aliases).

For my own situation, I solved this issue entirely from the 'roundcube'
webmail package. Help on the roundcubeforums site suggested changes to
the 'sieverules' plugin so :addresses would always be included in a
vacation rule. I extended this to the :from parameter.

Also used roundcube's new_user_identity plugin to populate the primary
identity of a 'ar-wbim' username with 'wim.bim at ourdomain.com' so that
the :from and :addresses are using the canonical format

Fairly ugly, but it works for us. I'll document the changes if I get a
moment.

Cheers,
Gavin.