Hey,
Anything is possible with Exim :) What I decided to do in the past with "Quarantining" mail was to get Exim to deliver the message directly to the specified Junk Folder, and based on a Spam Score in the message headers one could ignore the auto-responder.
Much the same as I am not an expert using Sieve, but I prefer ,IMO, that the MTA handle's anything to do with mail delivery, black/white lists, rbl, parsing, scanning (to some degree) etc. and let Dovecot (IMAP/POP3) serve the mail back to the client. This is in no way pushing aside Dovecot, just my personal taste. I do however see an overlap with mail quota's as Exim and Dovecot both are setup to maintain them in synergy. One wont accept mail if the user is over quota, much the same with Dovecot maintaining the quota from an IMAP perspective.
I prefer to blackhole/delete the mail if its classified as spam, so the need to worry about whether or not to send a auto-responder based on if the mail is spam or not is somewhat void in this case. The MTA parses the mail through SpamAssassin and based on a returned result, the MTA either rejects the message (550) or accepts it for delivery. This way we don't have rouge mail running around our systems using precious resources.
Regards Richard.
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Rick Hazey Sent: 29 November 2006 10:17 PM To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] considering dovecot
On Nov 29, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Richard Mayhew - Nashua Mobile Broadband Division wrote:
(IMO Vacation messages aren't really part of this mailing list forum, as I belive it's a MTA's job)
So.. To some it up. I prefer using Exim (MTA) to do the dirty work.
I hear what you're saying but it seems to me that the vacation message function belongs in Sieve (via Dovecot Deliver). I want to move spam into a junk folder and only auto-respond to the remaining email. I'm certainly no expert; this just seemed the logical way to do it and the way that Sieve and Maildrop handle it.
Are you able to avoid auto-responding to spam with your configuration using Exim?