sieve/vacation From line?

[andrew.caird at fccc.edu]

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"
  Regards.
--
Andrew Caird