I solved that problem (granted, with virtual domains) by using the
dovecot managesieve support and Horde ingo. Any sieve management tool
should able to do it, though, we were using Horde for webmail already
so rigging ingo to do filters wasn't hard.

No experience outside of ingo with this stuff, but ingo itself
integrates a vacation rule in quite nicely. There are a pile of other
solutions for managing the scripts through the managesieve interface,
so finding one that works for you shouldn't be too hard.

Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium

Quoting Raymond Lillard rlillard@sonic.net:

Dear Dovecot list,

I maintain a few small sendmail/dovecot/procmail based mail servers with system users only (no virtual domains or virtual users) on OpenBSD.

I have been able to get a vacation system working with both with the native vacation program from OpenBSD and with procmail. I've been looking into dovecot sieve, but it doesn't appear to solve the bigger user complaint which is, they want to be able to control the vacation feature w/o my involvement.

What is wanted is a system where the users can send a control mail message to themselves with the reply body in the message or failing that perhaps a secure web page to control the vacation function.

Mail administration is NOT a full time job for me. I'm looking for simple, low overhead solutions.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for your time. Ray