using sieve to inform users of a new address

[Ken Murchison]

ali asad lotia wrote:

> sorry i am not at all familiar with sieve, i have read the rfc and the  
> white paper, but would benefit greatly from the expertise of the folks  
> in the list
> 
>> Add ':addresses "old email address without domain" option to vacation.
> 
> with the line above, for a user foo at bar.com who is migrating to  
> foo at baz.net would the script be:
> require "vacation";
>         if header :contains ["To", "Cc", "Bcc"] "foo at bar.com"
>         { vacation :addresses "foo"  "Please note, my new email address  
> is foo at baz.net.
>                 Please send email to this address in the future.";
>         }
> 
> wouldnt this send out email to all users instead of just those who send  
> mail to the old address? or does it only function based if the header  
> test is passed?
> or would this be the script:
> 
> require "vacation";
>         if header :contains ["To", "Cc", "Bcc"] "foo at bar.com"
>         { vacation :addresses "foo at bar.com"  "Please note, my new email  
> address is foo at baz.net.
>                 Please send email to this address in the future.";
>         }

Yes, you are correct.  I was thinking of something else when I replied. 
  The value(s) in :addresses are compared against the recipient 
header(s) to make sure that the messages was addressed directly to you.

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