Sieve vacation function not working..

[Torsten Schlabach]

Mike!

I cannot see an :address parameter in your sieve script. Without that, 
you will never see any vacation response being generated! (Refer to 2. 
in my post.)

Regards,
Torsten

Mike Eggleston schrieb:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Torsten Schlabach might have said:
> 
> 
>>Hi Joseph,
>>
>>it would indeed be helpful if you posted the relevant section of your 
>>sieve script. Nevertheless, two hints which might hopefully be useful:
>>
>>1. Try to find out if anything in the chain between Sieve and your MTA 
>>might be the issue. The easiest way to do that is to try some rejecting 
>>with message or some forwarding as this will require Sieve to generate a 
>>new message and send it. In case that works, your Cyrus-MTA-Integration 
>>is probably not the problem. If that does not work either, check your 
>>MTA's log files for potential problems.
>>
>>2. If you find out that it looks as if Sieve is not creating any 
>>vacation response message at all, do you have the :address parameter set 
>>up and set up correctly? This parameter is technically optional, but the 
>>default value when omitting that parameter is *not* a wildcard. In other 
>>words: A vacation setup without any :address parameter will never create 
>>a vacation response message at all. (I think this could become an FAQ.)
> 
> 
> My apologies for a seeming hijack of this thread. I have the same issue also.
> 
> The vacation portion of my sieve script is:
> 
> # load the necessary components
> # fileinto is for filtering
> # vacation is ... well ... just that
> 
> require ["fileinto", "vacation", "imapflags"];
> 
> # save a copy of inbound messages
> setflag "\\Seen";
> fileinto "INBOX.backup";
> removeflag "\\Seen";
> 
> # main filtering rules
> if header :contains "Subject" "testing vacation" {
> 	vacation :days 1 :subject "test vac" "I'm testing, ok?!";
> 	setflag "\\Answered";
> 	fileinto "INBOX.howard";
> } elsif address :contains ["to","from","cc","bcc"] ["@mac.com","admin15 at pointwise.com"] {
> ...
> }
> 
> I am transitioning my users from pop3 to imap4/cyrus. Currently I have most users
> on imap4 using a wierd mail route. The mail comes in, is sent to the pop3
> server, a crontab entry for each user pulls the mail with fetchmail, sends each
> message to procmail, and procmail eventually uses deliver.
> 
> I'm testing eliminating procmail for the internal sieve scripting on my account.
> I cannot eliminate fetchmail until all my users are migrated to imap4. This is
> just background data.
> 
> Currently my sieve works well for filing the various messages. As mentioned above I
> cannot get the vacation portion to work. When a message arrives with a subject
> of 'testing vacation' the message is filed into the folder 'howard' but not reply
> is received on the external, sending account. I have waited several days between
> messages to get around the ':days 1' parameter in the script above.
> 
> I have local6 sent to a separate file, though I do not see any extra messages.
> I am using the current rpms on fedora core 5.
> 
> I know sieve is working because my messages do get filed according to the full
> sieve script.
> 
> Mike
> 
> ------------------------------------- rpms
> [mikee at elo ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
> Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)
> [mikee at elo ~]$ rpm -qa | grep cyrus
> cyrus-imapd-devel-2.3.1-2.8.fc5
> cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.21-10
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-10
> cyrus-imapd-utils-2.3.1-2.8.fc5
> cyrus-sasl-ldap-2.1.21-10
> cyrus-imapd-2.3.1-2.8.fc5
> cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.21-10
> ------------------------------------- rpms
> ------------------------------------- /etc/imapd.conf
> admins: cyrus
> allowanonymouslogin: no
> allowplaintext: yes
> autocreatequota: -1
> autocreateinboxfolders: Sent | Drafts | Trash | Junk | spam | backup
> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
> drachost: localhost
> dracinterval: 0
> hashimapspool: true
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> poptimeout: 10
> postmaster: postmaster
> quotawarn: 90
> reject8bit: no
> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> sendmail: /usr/lib/sendmail
> servername: servername
> sieveusehomedir: 0
> sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
> sieve_maxscripts: 5
> sieve_maxscriptsize: 32
> timeout: 1440
> tls_ca_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
> tls_cert_file: /etc/pki/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.pem
> tls_key_file: /etc/pki/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.pem
> #unixhierarchysep: yes
> ------------------------------------- /etc/imapd.conf
> ------------------------------------- /etc/cyrus.conf
> # standard standalone server implementation
> 
> START {
>   # do not delete this entry!
>   recover       cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -r"
> 
>   # this is only necessary if using idled for IMAP IDLE
>   idled         cmd="idled"
> }
> 
> # UNIX sockets start with a slash and are put into /var/lib/imap/sockets
> SERVICES {
>   # add or remove based on preferences
>   imap          cmd="imapd" listen="imap" prefork=5
>   imaps         cmd="imapd -s" listen="imaps" prefork=1
> # pop3          cmd="pop3d" listen="pop3" prefork=3
> # pop3s         cmd="pop3d -s" listen="pop3s" prefork=1
>   sieve         cmd="timsieved" listen="sieve" prefork=1
> 
>   # these are only necessary if receiving/exporting usenet via NNTP
> #  nntp         cmd="nntpd" listen="nntp" prefork=3
> #  nntps                cmd="nntpd -s" listen="nntps" prefork=1
> 
>   # at least one LMTP is required for delivery
> #  lmtp         cmd="lmtpd" listen="localhost:lmtp" prefork=1
>   lmtpunix      cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=1
> 
>   # this is only necessary if using notifications
> #  notify       cmd="notifyd" listen="/var/lib/imap/socket/notify" proto="udp" prefork=1
> }
> 
> EVENTS {
>   # this is required
>   checkpoint    cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -c" period=30
> 
>   # this is only necessary if using duplicate delivery suppression,
>   # Sieve or NNTP
>   delprune      cmd="cyr_expire -E 3 -X 1" at=0200
> 
>   # this is only necessary if caching TLS sessions
>   tlsprune      cmd="tls_prune" at=0400
> }
> ------------------------------------- /etc/cyrus.conf