sieve/vacation From line?

[Ken Murchison]

andrew.caird at fccc.edu wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Ken Murchison wrote:
> 
> 
>>andrew.caird at fccc.edu wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>  I'd like to be able to set the From line on sieve/vacation replies by
>>>hand.  For historical reasons, people's login IDs do not equal people's
>>>email addresses, and sieve/vacation simply replies as the mailbox name (in
>>>my case "acaird at fccc.edu"), but in general that address isn't valid, and
>>>it should reply as "andrew.caird at fccc.edu".
>>>  I was really hoping that vacation would take a ":from" parameter, but it
>>>doesn't seem to.
>>
>>vacation is actually using the envelope recipient as the contents of the
>>From: header.  This is no easy way to do this short of modifying the
>>source to do a lookup of some recipient/userid mapping.
>>
>>This could probably be done in v2.2 by adding a mailbox annotation which
>>corresponds to the user's "real" email address.
> 
> 
> Ken,
>   Thanks for the reply.  Unfortunately, I'm using v2.1.5 (the -BETA tag
> scared me away from v2.2 for now).  I was hoping that the "easy way" was
> an extra option in the vacation syntax, like:
> 	:from "andrew.caird at fccc.edu"

Feel free to add it as a local modification, but since its not part of 
the current Sieve/vacation draft, we probably won't add it to CVS.  You 
could also suggest such an addition on the ietf-mta-filters at imc.org 
list, but I'm not sure how it will be received.

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