speaking of sieve scripts... how to selectively not send vacation autoreply

[Stephan Bosch]

On 4/4/2015 10:02 AM, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> Don't need to block anyone like in the "Re: Dovecot Oy merger with 
> Open-Xchange AG" thread, but when I have my vacation recipie active, I'd like 
> it to NOT reply to certain addresses.
>
> I tried the following, you can see the section with
>
>     if header :contains "addressIdontwant at repliedtoo.tld"
>
> is commented out, once I'd added that section, no Vacation messages went out 
> at all.  Googling and reading the wiki and recipie suggestions doesn't make 
> it clear how to exempt a list of addresses from ever receiving a vacation 
> response.  Suggestions on additional reading or solutions?
>
>     require ["fileinto", "vacation"];
>     if header :comparator "i;ascii-casemap" :contains "Subject" "**SPAM**"  {
>             fileinto "Trash";
>             stop;
>     }
>
>     #if header :contains "addressIdontwant at repliedtoo.tld" {
>     #       stop;
>     #}
>
>     vacation
>       # Reply at most once a day to a same sender
>       :days 1
>       :subject "Changes to email addresses effective Jan 01/15"
>       # List of recipient addresses which are included in the auto replying.
>       # If a mail's recipient is not on this list, no vacation reply is sent for 
>     it.
>       :addresses ["user at repliedtoo.tld"]
>
> This is on a Dovecot 1.x system that is slated for an upgrade soon.

You should really inspect your log files or test the scripts with the
sieve-test command line tool. There is a syntax error in the part you
commented out:

error: the header test requires 2 positional argument(s), but 1 is/are
specified.

At delivery, this means that the script is not executed at all and the
message is just filed into INBOX.

Regards,

Stephan.