Sieve: vacation does not work

Simon Matter simon.matter at ch.sauter-bc.com
Fri Aug 4 12:23:23 EDT 2006


> Hi Phil
>
> Thanks for your answer..

Don't forget that vacation messages are usually only sent once a week or
so. That means testing is difficult because you get one response, and no
more without cleaning up duplicate db.

Simon

>
> I cant find somthing, sendmail looks okay:
> /etc/imapd.conf:
> sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
>
> :~$ ls -la /usr/sbin/sendmail
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 15908 2005-03-01 02:05 /usr/sbin/sendmail
>
> :~$ ls -al /usr/lib/sendmail
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 16 2005-04-05 17:02 /usr/lib/sendmail ->
> ../sbin/sendmail
>
> this cant be the problem...
>
> I use the the package that comes with Debian Sarge
> (cyrus21-imapd; 2.1.18-1) and also postfix (postfix; 2.1.5-9)
>
> I made a little test script, here it comes:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> require ["reject","fileinto","vacation"];
>
> if header :contains "Subject" "rejecttest"
> {
>     reject "testing";
> }
> if header :contains "Subject" "vactest"
> {
>    vacation :days 7 :addresses ["my at email.com"] "vactest!";
> }
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> reject works but the vacation not:-(
>
> is there a way to get any additionl infos, by example a strace would be
> great..
>
> regards
>
> Andreas
>
>
> Phil Pennock schrieb:
>> On 2006-08-04 at 15:32 +0200, Andreas Ferrari wrote:
>>
>>>In our office we use Debian Sarge, Postfix and Cyrus. Everything works
>>>great but only vacation with Sieve does not work.
>>>I have searched a lot and only found posts from other people which have
>>>the same problem but no solution.
>>>I use lmtp to deliver mails from Postfix to Cyrus...
>>>In the logfiles I see that my other sieve scripts are ok but the ones
>>>with vacation does not work, no erros... nothing in the logfiles.
>>>Are there any god documentations out there or does anyone can give me a
>>>hint how to solve this problem?
>>
>>
>> Do you have a /usr/lib/sendmail, not just /usr/sbin/sendmail?  If not,
>> have you used the "sendmail:" configuration directive to change sieve's
>> idea of which program to use to send new messages, such as with redirect
>> or vacation?
>>
>> If the OS packaging included documentation, then you should have an
>> "install-sieve.html" document, which covers this and walks you through
>> tests.
>
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