more than one Sieve autoreply per day?

[Robert Scussel]

Our solution to this problem was to handle it within the MTA. Don't know 
about postfix, but with Exim and virtual users, I was able to setup 
vacataions/autoreplies that came from a mysqdb.

HTH
B

Phil Durbin wrote:
>> That would make it workable.  I've been asked for the same thing, and
>> would welcome a solution.
>
> I talked to another hi-ed Cyrus IMAP admin and his users have asked 
> for autoreplies as well.  It must be a fairly common request.
>
>> Another aspect of it that has bothered me is that HR typically wants to
>> say "your message has been received", but are there situations where the
>> reply is sent and the message not delivered?  Disk failure perhaps,
>> or the recipient mailbox over quota.  In such cases the message should
>> bounce, but maybe not for a few days, and in the meantime the sender
>> thinks it has been received.  The consequences are different than they
>> are for an ordinary vacation notice.  It could be more of a legal
>> question than an email question.
>
> Right, our autoreply says "Your materials have been forwarded to the 
> appropriate department for consideration."  I guess it's true enough. 
> . . at least by this point the message has gone through out Postfix 
> and SpamAssassin servers and made it to our Cyrus servers. I'm sure 
> most people receiving the autoreply don't want to hear about the 
> nuances of email delivery, but your point is well taken.
>
> One thing our users don't have to worry about is being over quota. . . 
> we don't have them!
>
> Thanks again for your feedback, everyone.
>
> Phil
>
> --Phil Durbin
> Senior Systems Analyst
> Berklee College of Music
> pdurbin at berklee.edu
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