[Dovecot] sieve vacation reply

[Stéphane Wartel]

Hi Stephan,

Yep, after some tests you 're right, it's not possible.
So, I use :addresses in sieve script and will try -a or -r arguments in 
LDA command from postfix with the next release.

Bye,
Stephane

Le 02/08/2011 18:02, Stephan Bosch a écrit :
> On 8/2/2011 4:08 PM, Stephan Bosch wrote:
>> On 8/2/2011 2:43 PM, swartel at zero-spam.fr wrote:
>>> Hi Stephan,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your reply.
>>>
>>> After some more tests, it appears that mail aliases is the reason of 
>>> this error. The vacation mode has been enabled on a mailbox that 
>>> contains many aliases and one of them has been used as the recipient.
>>> We used dovecot 2.0.12-0~auto+5 from debian old-stable repo. Is 
>>> there anything we can do ?
>>>
>>
>> If you can access the original recipient from your MTA, you can use 
>> both -a and -r (if needed) arguments of dovecot-lda as outlined on 
>> this wiki page:
>>
>> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA
>>
>> This will make the vacation command perform the checks against the 
>> original recipient.
>>
>> Please let me know whether this is an adequate solution for you.
>
> Hmm, apparently this was not possible yet, so I've added it now:
>
> http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole/rev/81f7acac82f2
>
> This also adds support to disable this check completely (as explained 
> in doc/vacation.txt). I recommend using that only when all other 
> methods fail.
>
> I've still got some more TODO items about this issue, particularly 
> about adding support to check some external aliases database. I am 
> still not sure how I should approach that though.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stephan.