[Dovecot] Vacation: Missing file .dovecot.lda-dupes ?

Tobias Balle-Petersen tbp at kontrapunkt.com
Tue Feb 3 16:37:34 EET 2009


Hi there Timo.

Your suggestion worked like a charm. Thanks a lot for this and all your 
hard work on Dovecot.

Tobias

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 13:56 +0100, Tobias Balle-Petersen wrote:
>> Hello....
>>
>> I'm using the vacation feature, but the vacation reply is sent when ever 
>> a mail is received. What I want is, that the reply should only be sent 
>> one time to each user.
>>
>> My understanding is, that a list of people who have received the 
>> vacation message should be stored in the file .dovecot.lda-dupes in the 
>> users folder. 
> 
> It's stored in the user's home directory. Are you returning a home
> directory from your userdb ldap? If not, you could also kludge around it
> by adding something like:
> 
> plugin {
>   home = /home/vmail/%n
> }
> 
> (Then again if you're not returning a home directory, you may not even
> need userdb ldap at all and you could use userdb static instead?)


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