Vacation Fcc

Gregory Heytings ghe at sdf.org
Mon Oct 14 11:57:08 EEST 2019


Hi Stephan,

Thanks for your answer!

> 
>> I use Dovecot's Pigeonhole Sieve implementation, and there is one 
>> little feature I'm missing:  When a vacation message is sent, I'd like 
>> to keep a copy of that message in my "sent" mailbox.
>> 
>> There is an RFC draft (draft-ietf-extra-sieve-fcc-09) for this, which 
>> adds a ":fcc" argument to vacation, but apparently it's not supported 
>> by Pigeonhole.
>
> Actually, it is RFC already: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8580 .
>

Okay, thanks for the pointer!

>
>> I have two questions:
>> 
>> Will ":fcc" be supported in the future?
>
> I'd say yes, but it is not simple to implement, nor is it high up in our 
> list of priorities.
>

Okay, so I'd better look for another solution in the meantime...

>
>> In the meantime (or if supporting ":fcc" is not planned), is it 
>> possible to achieve the same result with the existing Sieve 
>> extensions?  (I can imagine a way to do this at the MTA level by 
>> checking the presence of the "Auto-Submitted:" header, but did not test 
>> it.)
>
> I can't think of any means to do that within the Sieve language.
>

I'll try to find a way to do it at the MTA level, but it seems more 
complicated than what I initially thought.

Best,

Gregory


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