sieve vacation to an alias group

[Yassine Chaouche]

Since sending to the alias will send to a, b and c, just define the 
filter on one mailbox only instead of making it global I guess.

Yassine.

On 3/10/19 11:51 AM, Yassine Chaouche via dovecot wrote:
>
> I am curious to know how did you define the filter on an alias in the 
> first place ? is it a filter defined globaly in dovecot ? I don't see 
> how it can be defined in any individual mailbox. Can you show the 
> dovecot/sieve configuration to achieve this ?
>
> Yassine.
>
> On 3/10/19 11:40 AM, Monis Monther via dovecot wrote:
>> Hi Yassine,
>>
>> Thanks for the effort, unfortunately, we cannot turn it into an 
>> actual mailbox, this is a long story that I don't want to include 
>> here. but it would not be a valid option in our environment. Any 
>> other ideas
>>
>> Is it possible to do it with vacation? Is there another auto 
>> responder or plugin that can achieve this? How do ticketing systems 
>> handle this?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Monis
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 11:13 AM Yassine Chaouche via dovecot 
>> <dovecot at dovecot.org <mailto:dovecot at dovecot.org>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     On 3/10/19 9:07 AM, Yassine Chaouche via dovecot wrote:
>>>
>>>     On 3/9/19 12:41 PM, Monis Monther via dovecot wrote:
>>>
>>>>     Hi,
>>>>
>>>>     We have an alias group named xyz at example.com
>>>>     <mailto:xyz at example.com>, this alias group has 3 actual users
>>>>     a at example.com <mailto:a at example.com>, b at example.com
>>>>     <mailto:b at example.com> and c at example.com <mailto:c at example.com>
>>>>
>>>>     We set vacation rule on the generic sieve rule, the problem is
>>>>     that 3 responses are sent to the original sender. (obviously
>>>>     because the rule is being executed with each user in the alias
>>>>     group)
>>>>
>>>>     Is it possible to set auto response only once, we tried the (
>>>>     :days 1) option but still all 3 respond back.
>>>>
>>>>     How can such a setup be achieved. (Single auto response to an
>>>>     alias group)
>>>>
>>>>     CentOS 7.5
>>>>     dovecot-pigeonhole-2.3.4.1-1.x86_64
>>>>     dovecot-2.3.4.1-1.x86_64
>>>>     postfix 2.10-1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     -- 
>>>>     Best Regards
>>>>     Monis
>>>
>>>     Hello Monis,
>>>
>>>     As a workaround, you can turn xyz at example.com
>>>     <mailto:xyz at example.com> into an actual mailbox and give
>>>     a at example.com <mailto:a at example.com>, b at example.com
>>>     <mailto:b at example.com> and c at example.com <mailto:c at example.com>
>>>     read-only shared folder access.
>>>
>>>     Yassine.
>>>
>>
>>     As a request for comments and improvements, here's a my script to
>>     share folders via acl files and symlinks (dovecot must be
>>     configured accordingly) :
>>
>>     root at messagerie[10.10.10.19] /usr/local/scripts/mail # cat
>>     sharemailbox.single
>>     #!/bin/bash
>>
>>     function create_link {
>>         l_src=$1
>>         l_dst=$2
>>         l_maildir=$3
>>         t_maildir=$(echo "$3" | tr . ․)
>>         t_dst="$l_dst"/.shared."$t_maildir"
>>         echo pointing "$t_dst" to "$l_src"
>>         echo ln -s "$l_src/" "$t_dst"
>>         ln -s "$l_src/" "$t_dst"
>>
>>     }
>>
>>
>>     function verifier_email {
>>         l_email=$1
>>         if ! searchmailbox.strict.sql $l_email > /dev/null
>>         then
>>             echo "l'utilisateur $l_email n'a pas pu être trouvé dans
>>     la base de données." >&2
>>             return 1
>>         fi
>>         return 0
>>     }
>>
>>     function set_acl {
>>         l_maildir=$1
>>         l_email=$2
>>         echo "giving $l_email access to $l_maildir"
>>         if [ ! -d $l_maildir ]
>>         then
>>             #.Sent isn't there yet.
>>             return
>>         fi
>>         acl_file="$l_maildir/dovecot-acl"
>>         echo "echo user=$l_email lr >> $acl_file"
>>         echo user="$l_email" lr >> "$acl_file"
>>         chown vmail:vmail "$acl_file"
>>     }
>>
>>
>>     if [ "$#" -lt 2 ]
>>     then
>>         echo "usage : $0 partage at domain.com
>>     <mailto:partage at domain.com> user1 at domain.com
>>     <mailto:user1 at domain.com> user2 at domain.com
>>     <mailto:user2 at domain.com> ... "
>>         exit 1
>>     fi
>>
>>     email="$1"
>>     inbox="${email%@*}"
>>     domain="${email#*@}"
>>     src="/var/vmail/$domain/$inbox"
>>     if ! verifier_email "$email"
>>     then
>>         echo "exit at 1"
>>         exit 1
>>     fi
>>
>>
>>     shift
>>     for share_email in $@
>>     do
>>         if ! verifier_email $share_email
>>         then
>>             continue
>>         fi
>>         share_inbox="${share_email%@*}"
>>         share_domain="${share_email#*@}"
>>     share_maildir=/var/vmail/"$share_domain"/"$share_inbox"
>>         #echo grep "$share_email" "$src"/dovecot-acl
>>         if grep "$share_email" "$src"/dovecot-acl > /dev/null 2>&1
>>         then
>>             # then is executed when exit status is 0
>>             # exist status is 0 when there is a match
>>             echo "$share_email" has already access to "$email"
>>         else
>>             set_acl $src $share_email
>>             create_link $src $share_maildir $inbox
>>         fi
>>     done
>>     root at messagerie[10.10.10.19] /usr/local/scripts/mail #
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Best Regards
>> Monis
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