On 05/10/2011 07:24 AM, Michael Menge wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting "Nathanael D. Noblet" <nathanael@xxxxxxx>: > >> >> Hello, >> >> I have a mail server that we use cyrus-imap for. It works well >> enough. Stock package for RHEL 5 (cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-7.el5_4.3). Likely >> somewhat old. In anycase we've used sieve for server side filtering and >> it has worked well for years. We have a couple users however that would >> like to use the 'Vacation'/'Auto responding' features. The add the rule, >> however no auto response is ever attempted. There are no errors in the >> log, nada. >> >> I spent a few hours trying to get something but never did. Can anyone >> suggest what I should be doing to see why it isn't working? Any gotcha's >> or other pointers? Google has turned up many people with similar >> problems, but no answers. I could really use a hand with how to >> debug/track this down. >> > > Configuring and debuging Vacation is a bit tricky. > > First you need to make sure cyrus is able to send emails. > Do forwarding rules work for you? They do yes. > > Second you need to add vacation to sieve_extensions in imapd.conf. > and the script must contain a "require vacation" line at the beginning. Hmm that's new. I had seen things about require vacation in the sieve script (which is present). However looking at a list of files installed as part of the cyrus-imapd package I see nothing about vacation. Looking at the man page I see that that is necessary now. > Third, there are some measures to prevent mailloops and other not > intended vacationmails. So to test you have to use different > senderaddresses or delete the delivery DB for each try, and > you have to configure the addresses of the recipient in the vacation > rule. I've added it restarted cyrus and sent mail from a different account than my previous test. > > Hope that helps to debug the problem. It has definitely given me some more info to look at I was previously unaware of. Thanks! -- Nathanael d. Noblet t 403.875.4613 ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
