How can I always send a vacation response with sieve?

Marc Marc at f1-outsourcing.eu
Sun Sep 5 00:50:42 EEST 2021


You do not want to do that because that can create loops.

> -----Original Message-----
> I don't want dovecot to wait X days before sending out another vacation
> response. However, setting the :days to "0" doesn't work.
> 
> RFC https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5230.html#section-4.1 says:
> 
> 4.1.  Days Parameter
> 
>     The ":days" argument is used to specify the period in which
> addresses
>     are kept and are not responded to, and is always specified in days.
>     The minimum value used for this parameter is normally 1.  Sites MAY
>     define a different minimum value as long as the minimum is greater
>     than 0.  Sites MAY also define a maximum days value, which MUST be
>     greater than 7, and SHOULD be greater than 30.
> 
>     If ":days" is omitted, the default value is either 7 or the minimum
>     value (as defined above), whichever is greater.
> 
> 
>     If the parameter given to ":days" is less than the minimum value,
>     then the minimum value is used instead.
> 
>     If ":days" exceeds the site-defined maximum, the site-defined
> maximum
>     is used instead.
> 
> Sorry if this is more of a sieve question and is slightly off topic.


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