Cyrus vacation notice

[Joseph Brennan]

> However, when I send to a user with a set vacation message using an
> external email system (eg Hotmail) then it?s a bit hit and miss as to
> whether an out of office message gets delivered to the sender.

Check this by looking at your syslog or maillog, for an outgoing
message from <> to the hotmail address.  It will be within seconds
of the incoming message from the hotmail address.

Actual delivery to the hotmail inbox is not your concern, and from
stories I've heard, don't count on it to work.  The hotmail user may
have a user-level configuration that throws the mail away, without
realizing it.

If there are any other rules in the sieve filter before the vacation
rule, check whether they say to stop.  For example, if I say put mail
from foo at example.com in inbox and stop, and then have the vacation
rule after that, foo at example.com won't get the vacation message.

You know of course that vacation replies per sender only once a day,
or some longer period, right?  Just checking.


Joseph Brennan
Columbia University Information Technology