pigeonhole / vacation

[Stephan Bosch]

Op 15-3-2017 om 12:56 schreef A. Schulze:
>
> Hello,
>
> we use the sieve vacation module to answer messages for certain 
> mailboxes.
> vacation send back answers to most but not all messages wich is fine 
> and intended.
>
> .dovecot.sieve looks like this:
>
>   require ["vacation", "variables"];
>
>   if header :matches "subject" "*" {
>     vacation :subject "Automatic response to: ${1}" "thanks for your 
> message";
>     keep;
>   }
>
>
> But now I would like to distinct messages that where answered from 
> those where the vacation module
> did not send back a message. Is it possible to store answered messages 
> in one folder and unanswered in an other?
>
>   # probably invalid sieve syntax
>   if vacation .... {
>     fileinto "answered/";
>     stop;
>   else
>     fileinto "unanswered/";
>     stop;
>   }
>
> After reading RFC 5230 I feel it's not possible at all :-/

I think you're right. You can only determine whether vacation messages 
are attempted, not whether these are actually sent. You can mimic most 
of what vacation does to prevent sending inappropriate responses, but 
that wouldn't be reliable.

Regards,

Stephan.