open port on firewall for sieve to enable vacation auto-response?

[Merlin Hartley]

Seconded. We also use roundcube+managesieve with the vacation pane enabled. 

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Merlin Hartley


> On 14 Dec 2017, at 09:31, Vladislav Kurz <vladislav.kurz at webstep.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/13/17 23:21, Patrick Goetz wrote:
>> I'm trying to set up a vacation auto-response utility for my users, and
>> it appears that the path of least resistance is to use the sieverules
>> plugin for roundcube (since roundcube is already installed as their
>> webmail client alternative to Thunderbird).
>> 
>> In reading through some online hints it appears that I need to open up
>> port 4190 on the firewall in order for sieve to work, is this correct?
> 
> Hello Patrick,
> 
> you do not need to open the sieve port to the whole world. Only allow
> the connection from the webmail server - which may (or may not) be
> localhost.
> 
> I have tried various sieve plugins for mail clients (thunderbird,
> kmail), and I could not find anything comparable to managesieve plugin
> for roundcube. Usually it was just a text editor for uploading hand
> written sive scripts... So most users will be using webmail to configure
> sieve.
> 
>> Also, is there anything special I need to do with my cyrus configuration
>> to allow for roundcube to notify imapd about sieve rules being
>> activated/deactivated?
> 
> Just uncomment the sieve line in cyrus.conf
> 
>> BTW, if anyone has a better solution for this, let me know.  The
>> criteria are the users need to be able to activate and deactivate the
>> vacation auto-response themselves, so writing a sieve script is not an
>> option.
> 
> I think roundcube+managesieve plugin is the best. I think that there is
> even an option in managesieve to enable a simplified "vacation only"
> interface. (But I'm not sure in which version it is).
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best Regards
>       Vladislav Kurz
> 
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