How to enable Sieve Filter for vacation

Kendrick Vargas ken at hudat.com
Wed Aug 18 10:16:07 EDT 2004


Sujit Choudhury wrote:
> We are running cyrus+postfix on a SuSE Linux box.  We have the following
> file in:
> /usr/sieve/e/example
> 
> And the ingo.script in that directory contains the following:
> require "vacation";
> 
> # Blacklisted Addresses
> # Vacation Message
> vacation :days 1 :addresses "example at westminster.ac.uk" :subject "out of
> office reply" "Thanks for your email. I'm away";
> 
> We are sending mail to example at westminster.ac.uk but not getting any
> vacation auto reply.
> 
> We also have in /etc/services: 
> sieve           2000/tcp        # Cyrus SIEVE
> sieve           2000/udp        # Cyrus SIEVE
> 
> netstat -an|grep 2000 gives the following:
> tcp        0      0 :::2000                 :::*
> LISTEN
> 
> 
> I would be grateful if anybody has any idea about what is happening.

You have to set the path to the sendmail binary. The following is from my 
imapd.conf file:

	sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail

Make sure you have this set, otherwise sieve won't be able to inject mail 
into your MTA for vacation replies. Hope this helps.
			-peace

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