[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 21, Issue 24: vacation messages

[Ted Knab]

Normally, the vacation message works with the default mail server (MTA). 
In my case, I use the vacation program. Postfix delivers to the local 
mail user and if they have a .forward with the vacation info on it gets 
called.
For a truly virtual setup that does not require unique uids
on the filesystem there is  gnarwl. Gnarwl is a program written in C 
that does vacation messages for virtual users.
It works with Postfix, which is simplier that sendmail. :)

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>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 23:13:48 -0700
>From: "Del Stoliker" <dstoliker at alphagraphics.com>
>Subject: [Dovecot] Virtual users vacation notices and forwards
>To: <dovecot at dovecot.org>
>Message-ID: <200501140613.j0E6DfZ9012233 at smtp2.alphagraphics.com>
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>I'm in the process of moving from UW-IMAP to dovecot. I'm exploring the idea
>of using virtual users with dovecot and storing all user information in
>LDAP. While bouncing this idea off of a coworker, he asked me how we could
>handle vacation notices and forwards. Currently, we're using a procmail
>recipe to generate the vacation notice, and the sendmail .forward file for
>forwards (although most of our forwarding takes place elsewhere so the
>.forward file is rarely used). These are, of course, dependant on the user
>having an account on the mail server. How are those of you using virtual
>users supporting this functionality?
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>Thanks!
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