Rick Hazey wrote:
- capability for users to set their own vacation message via a web page
Sieve can do both but for #2 it appears that the vacation message text must be contained within the Sieve script itself. I'm planning on using mySQL for the authentication database and the vacation message should be stored in mySQL. I don't see any way to access the vacation message text from mySQL using Sieve.
Properly handling vacation messages is beyond the current capabilities of SIEVE, IMNSHO. The problem is that it is surprisingly tricky to correctly figure out what messages *not* to reply to: listserv messages, bounces, etc. Indeed, there is no way in the SIEVE language to limit the vacation messages by number either; it is considered best practices to only respond with the vacation message a limited number of times (configurable).
Personally (and professionally) I use qmail-autoresponder:
http://untroubled.org/qmail-autoresponder/which, despite its name, isn't just limited to qmail, but can be placed in a .forward file.
HTH
John
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