[Dovecot] Vacation - out of office - SOLUTION

[Charles Marcus]

If the below replies to *all* messages, it is broken. I don't understand
the code, but I don't see any attempt to detect any of the numerous
situations where a vacation message shoul NOT be sent (like dovecot list
messages, for just one example).

Richard Gliebe wrote:
> On 8/11/10 10:43 AM Jerrale G wrote:
>> Yes, you can use procmail and maildrop. It isn't integrated; so, the
>> configuration will be extensive. It would be better, in this case, to
>> only use dovecot for sasl and have procmail or maildrop an executable
>> of your SMTP (postfix or w/e)
> 
> ~/.procmail is the solution without any other tools/scripts and so on.
> Best quick'n dirty solution for me ;-)
> 
> # cat .procmailrc
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> Sent_To = `formail -xTo: | expand | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g'`
> 
> :0 Whc: vacation.lock
> * !^FROM_DAEMON
> * !^X-Loop: ${Sent_To}
> | formail -rD 8192 vacation.cache
> 
> # Only run this rule if the last rule didn't match, meaning it will only
> mail each
> # user once.
> 
> :0 ehc         # if the name was not in the cache
> | (formail -rA"Precedence: junk" \
>    -A"X-Loop: ${Sent_To}" ; \
> cat $HOME/.vacation.message; \
> echo ""; \
> echo "-- "; cat $HOME/.signature \
> ) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t -f "${Sent_To}"
> 
> thanks
> Richard


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Best regards,

Charles