[Dovecot] dovecot, sieve and vacation

[Cedric Jeanneret]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:16:21 +0100
Stephan Bosch <stephan at rename-it.nl> wrote:

> Op 3/20/2012 12:05 PM, Cedric Jeanneret schreef:
> > Hi there !
> >
> > Have a small problem with sieve and vacation: it seems to descard the vacation filter I created instead of sending back an email:
> >
> > Mar 20 11:56:28 hostname dovecot: deliver(virtual_user): sieve: msgid=unspecified: discarding vacation response for message implicitly delivered to<virtual_user at hostname>
> 
> The vacation action will not send a response when the envelope-to 
> address (in your case virtual_user at hostname) is not contained in the To: 
> or Cc: headers of the message itself; the message needs to be explicitly 
> addressed to the recipient. For the version you are using this needs to 
> match the final recipient as passed to Dovecot. In newer versions of the 
> Pigeonhole Sieve implementation the original SMTP envelope recipient 
> (i.e. before local rewrites) can also be used instead. Alternatively, 
> new versions allow disabling this behavior entirely, although this is 
> not recommended.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stephan.

Hello,

thanks for the hint. In fact, I have to add the address aliases in the rule, and it works. Not really cool, but it works like that :).

Cheers,

C.