I might be confused also, I haven't been able to receive an automated vacation reply yet.. both gmail and my mail servers block mail from the auto reply. This is what shows up in the mail logs on one my servers:
Jul 30 01:00:48 asura qmail-scanner-queue.pl: qmail-scanner[32365]: Policy:Bad_MIME:RC:0(202.47.4.134):SA:0(-2.6/5.0): 4.856249 790 <>@ mail.domain.com.au admin@domain.com Out_of_office_ dovecot-1248932550-403189-0@max_ 1248933643.32367-0.asura.domain.com:14orig-asura.domain.com124893364378632365:790
So maybe it isn't the return-path, but it doesn't seem to like the fact that the user is <>
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Charles Marcus CMarcus@media-brokers.comwrote:
On 7/30/2009, Stephen Vaughan (stephenvaughan@gmail.com) wrote:
Does the fix apply to dovecot 1.1 only? We are running 1.0, should we be upgrading to 1.2?
1.0 is old... so yes, you should upgrade... lots more reasons than this one bugfix, for sure...
But... I'm confused about the bug...
The mail clients displayed 'From' address was the problem, right? Thats what was fixed... the 'return-path', which is what you were originally complaining about, is still <>, as it should be for vacation messages.
--
Best regards,
Charles
-- Best Regards, Stephen Sent from Sydney, Nsw, Australia