Sure. The trick is in getting the message to the Autoresponder system. This can be done by the delivery agent (maildrop), or further upstream in the MTA. I use Postfix as my MTA. When I receive a message via smtp, it (pipes it through a virus filter) (pipes it through a spam filter) and drops the message in the maildir. It also "forks" the message, sending a copy to YAA!. YAA runs it's own little pseudo smtp server, and recieves the message from postfix. (on port 3333 I think..). Then Yaa looks at the rcpt to, looks it up in the database, and generates the vacation message. If no vacation message exists, the message is discarded.
-ejay
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Rick Hazey Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 11:18 AM To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] considering dovecot
On Nov 29, 2006, at 10:09 AM, Ejay Hire wrote:
I use YAA! (yet another autoresponder) to handle vacation messages,, but I feel the system could be made more efficient.
Could you give me an overview of how your setup works using YAA? I can't seem to wrap my brain around how you would do something like this in a dovecot environment.