sieve/vacation From line?

andrew.caird at fccc.edu andrew.caird at fccc.edu
Thu Oct 23 15:35:08 EDT 2003


On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Pat Lashley wrote:
> --On Thursday, October 23, 2003 14:53:38 -0400 andrew.caird at fccc.edu wrote:
>
> I'm not sure how the vacation functionality is implemented; but if it
> goes through your normal MTA instead of attempting a direct SMTP
> connection; then you should be able to have your MTA rewrite the From
> address on the way out.  This is fairly trivial with exim; I'm not sure
> how hard it would be with other MTAs.

We use sendmail, and we could re-write the outgoing addresses, but it's
not easy, and it involves either (a) another flat file of mappings to
maintain or (b) another LDAP lookup (and I'm not sure that's even
possible); either way it's hard.  Perhaps it's time to switch to exim? :)
Thanks.
--
Andrew Caird




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