Vacation example with sendmail as MTA

[m.brodbelt at acu.ac.uk]

> Hello,
>
> I had a look through Cyrus documentation and FAQ but I didn't find
> anything mentioning how to set up vacation messages for the users
> hosted on our mail server using Sendmail 8.12.7 and Cyrus IMAP 2.1.11.
>
> Can someone in some few words explain me how I can active a vacation
> message for a user ?
>
> From what I understood I will need sieve to acheive that, right ?

Yes, the user needs to create a sive script that takes the vacation action
for all incoming messages (except mailing list subscriptions, etc). The
user then needs to upload this script to the server somehow.
> Another important point is that it would be nice if the user has an
> interface where he can active/deactive/update his vacation message,
> does something like that exist ?

I use SquirrelMail as a webmail frontend to Cyrus for users when they are
out of the office. SquirrelMail supports a plugin architecture, and there
is a plugin (avelsieve) that deals with GUI creation of sieve scripts, and
submits them to the server. Most of my users have no problem with using
that interface to set up limited mail filters, and vacation messages.
HTH,

Mike.