Vacation sieve explained: how does it work?

[Graham Leggett]

Hi all,

I have a legacy system that uses gnarwl to handle vacation messages, most specifically the vacation messages are stored in LDAP. We have a web based tool that allows people to update their vacation message, all they’re doing is modifying LDAP.

I am trying to find out if dovecot’s vacation sieve can do the same thing. I am struggling however to find something that describes to me how dovecot vacation sieve is configured. Is there a howto or walkthrough anywhere?

Specific burning questions:

- If I was to configure the dovecot vacation sieve, where is the body of each vacation message stored? File on disk? In a store like an LDAP store? Somewhere else?

- How is the body of vacation message modified? Does this happen through the IMAP protocol, a command line tool, something else?

- How is the vacation message switched on and off? Does this happen through the IMAP protocol, a command line tool, or something else?

The docs at https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Extensions/Vacation describe how to control how often the vacation messages are sent, but very little else. I am very confused :(

Regards,
Graham
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