Sieve vacation function not working..

[Mike Eggleston]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Torsten Schlabach might have said:

> > What value should I use to wild-card to every address?
> 
> No sure out of the top of my head ... AFAIK wildcards are an extra 
> module in Sieve, but not sure. If in doubt, try some RTFM. Or try with 
> one address to start with, so see some success in the first place. It 
> might be just *. You might even be able to do things such as 
> '*@yourdomain.com'.
> 
> Be a bit careful when it comes to wildcards. Vacation responses are a 
> bit more complex than they look like, i.e.:
> 
> - You never ever want to send responses to mails where you have been on 
> bcc. (Unless you want to make sure spammers know your address is valid.)
> - You might not want to send responses to mails where you have been on cc.
> - You don't want to send responses to mailing lists. (I think there's 
> some built-in functionality to prevent this.)
> 
> Nevertheless, I sometimes wish I could see (after my return) who got a 
> vacation response from me. Is there anything preventing me of having 
> Sieve store a copy of the outbound message into my Sent folder? (Just 
> thinking loud.)
> 
> Regards,
> Torsten
> 
> 
> Mike Eggleston schrieb:
> >On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Torsten Schlabach might have said:
> >
> >
> >>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.)
> >
> >
> >Duh, I expected the problem to be something simple, but I couldn't see
> >the answer. What value should I use to wild-card to every address?
> >
> >Mike

I have the same desire to see what items vacation responded to, the filing
of a message into the folder 'howard' is working just fine.

Mike