vacation on Fedora Core 4
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Aug 15 12:34:57 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 08:27 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 15:49 +0300, Razvan Sandu wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Can anyone recommend me a good, simple solution for implementing vacation
> > automatic replies on Fedora Core 4 ? A rpm-ized solution is preferred...
> >
> > Please note that:
> > - the MTA is *Postfix*;
> > - users are *virtual mailboxes* in the sense described at
> > http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html#virtual_mailbox
> > - POP3 server is *dovecot*;
> > - POP3 passwords are kept in a *plain passwd-style file*, /etc/imap.passwd,
> > which contain entries like:
> > john.doe at mydomain.com:fXxvfcxbv.Xr:503:503:John
> > Doe:/home/fakeuser/domains/mydomain.com/john.doe:/sbin/nologin
> >
> > All users are under the same UID & GID, 503:503, which belong to "fakeuser".
> > Received mail goes to
> > /home/fakeuser/domains/mydomain.com/john.doe, which is John Doe's Maildir
> > mailbox.
>
> Does postfix with virtual mailboxes support procmail? If so, there's an
> example of how to mimic vacation using procmail in "man procmailex".
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not an answer to your question but another avenue...cyrus-imapd with
sieve can do this with virtual users but it neither requires Postfix nor
does it involve procmail.
I found that using procmail for users was vacation scripts was messy -
required a valid shell and a valid home directory.
Craig
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