Redirect and Out of Office not sending

[SB]

If you have a forwarding account, say ex-staff-member@ … which forwards to new-staff-member@ … and there is an out of office on the new-staff-member@ mailbox, it does not send the out of office message when you email ex-staff-member@

[SH]

Unfortunately sieve vacation filter has this kind of behaviour, see https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-July/041252.html

I am affraid it is not solvable in some nice way. Domain bin, domain forward, redirect at smtp level, redirect with sieve, redirects at external servers - the only one which can be "fixed" is redirect at smtp level

[SB]

This worked for me - Thank you for the information.

:addresses ["1st.alias at domain", "2nd.alias at domain"]

[SB]

Would it be a lot of work to update this on the admin area when setting the out of office?

For example, you could loop through all email accounts for a domain where "redirect_to": ["this-email@domain"] = true? and just add in one extra line to the sieve filter?

:address ["$1","$2","$3"] ?

or maybe it would even work with this, and it could be added in by default to cover all scenarios with no extra coding? but i'm not sure:

:addresses ["*@domain.com"]

[SH]

I am thinking to ditch Dovecot's vacation filter and create external script (via https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Plugins/Extprograms) which would accept all domains from mailserver - this would fix all internal redirects and still follow RFC. Current logic is very user-unfriendly and confusing in many cases

[SB]

I agree the Vacation/OOO is not intuitive at all, which seems the case for many linux based systems we have seen - sieve filters confuse users so much it's not worth the hassle.

I don't know much on how dovecot works, but am i correct in thinking this is like an additional script which the sieve would run? So OOO would work as it does now, but just with extra features? or would it be a complete rewrite?

Would the API stay the same (or similar?) We just spent 2 months developing and deploying an outlook plugin specifically for poste.io, used currently on ¬250 clients to manage their OOO from their Outlook 2013/16 desktops. I think I emailed you about this before christmas when I was having other issues, but you are welcome to the source code if you would like to use it or even redistribute etc.

Also to consider, not that we use it, but would webmail like roundcube/rainloop still be able to edit OOO using sieve filters?

[SH]

ref #544 add autoreply targets filter

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[Alexander]

Please do not drop sieve in future releases.

[SB]

+1 Alex, We use sieve for OOO and API software, thank you

[SH]

Sieve is not going anywhere! This just adds prefilled form field with target addresses which vacation filter will “watch”.

For example if you have [e-mail] aliased to [e-mail] it will by default autoreply “[e-mail],[e-mail]” but if you use domain bin you can also define to reply to [e-mail]. Still we will try to find better solution which will be more user friendly without manualy adding each address to reply to (it is standard behaviour defined by RFC). There are corner cases where autoreplies create more mess than it should, thats why it is so restricted

[SH]

fix #544 rcpt_database blocking already reversed SRSed senders

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