sieve vacation - 2 questions

Hajo Locke Hajo.Locke at gmx.de
Thu Oct 29 08:32:17 UTC 2015


Hello Stephan,

this works great. Thanks a lot.

Hajo

Am 28.10.2015 um 17:34 schrieb Stephan Bosch:
> Op 10/28/2015 om 3:56 PM schreef Hajo Locke:
>> Hello,
>>
>> still trying to move from procmail to sieve, but there are new problems.
>>
>> Currently we use procmail for autoresponder and let user choose
>> timerange, in which responder should work. May be you set up today
>> your responder for 2 weeks in future where responder start and stop
>> automatically without further manuell intervention.
>> In procmail this is done by simple scripting and comparison of
>> timestamps. How to do this in sieve?
> You need to use the currentdate test, as provided by the date extension
> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5260). A useful example is here:
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5260#section-5.1
>
>> 2nd questions concerns to used From-Address in responding mail.
>> Header of a sieve-responder shows a minimal From-Address:
>> From: <adress at example.com>
>> But our Users want to add a custom name which is displayed at
>> recipient of responder:
>> From: John Doe <adress at example.com>
>> In procmail this is easy with formail, how to do this in sieve?
>> Both features we implemented because people asked about it. I should
>> find a way to recreate this in sieve.
> Use the ":from" argument of the vacation command. This can also contain
> the name (phrase) part of the email address:
>
>
> require "vacation";
>
> vacation :from "Stephan Bosch <stephan at example.org>" "I am on off-world.";
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Stephan.
>



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