Vacation Autoresponders in Lion Server

Take it back all working now.

It helps me, Thanks

jorge cristian wrote:

I have noticed in mailaccess.log when a mail arrives to a user with an autoanswer filter active and configured, the part of the system that is responsible for delivering to the user's mailbox folder, which i think is called DOVECOT, puts a log saying

"discarding vacation response for implicitly delivered message; no known (envelope) recipient address found in message headers (recipient=<user@hostname>, and additional `:addresses' are specified)"

and that gave me a hint.

The problem is that DOVECOT does not uses the user's mail address.

After looking a way to correct this I found a line in master.cf, wich is located in /etc/postfix, that says

dovecot unix - n n - 25 pipe

flags=DRhu user=_dovecot:mail argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -d ${user}

# Use these settings to enable +addressing (user+mailbox@example.com)

# flags=DRhu user=_dovecot:mail argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -d ${user} -a ${recipient} -m ${extension}

I've added at the end of the flags line what is suggested

-a ${recipient} -m ${extension}

and reloaded postfix master.cf

After that, vacation messages started to be sent.

Hope this helps.

Mike Friedman wrote:

I also found that it's necessary to ACTIVATE the set of filters that you are using, otherwise nothing happens.

I have to say that this is a huge step backwards for something that should be trivial. It was trivial in Snow Leopard and now they've made it hugely difficult to do something simple.

I can't for the life of me fathom why.

Thanks man!

I've missed that one and I had a user that wasn't working because of that, you save mi life.

ok, I had this working. I haven't looked at it for a while and it must have changed after doing some updates.

We are running Server 10.7.5

Open Server Admin

Select your server and drop the menu down

Select Mail

Select Settings

Go to Filter tab

at the bottom of the page there is an option to enable server side mail rules

Save

Now when you log in to Webmail and go to Settings and then Filters and add a filter there is the optino for reply:

Log into webmail

Click on Settings (top right corner)

Click on Filters Tab

Click on Add Filter (single page with green + icon)

Name the filter something like Vacation or auto respond or whatever

Click All Messages

Choose Reply with Message from the drop down menu

Fill out the form to say what you want (you can leave the last two fields empty)

Click Save or Add (both seem to create the Filter)

Far right there is a Filter Disabled check box for you to use to activate or disable auto response.

+1 for jorge cristian's modification to the dovecot flags.

Note that my master.cf file had the following timestamp:

0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7422 Oct 10 2011 master.cf

So it's possible that other versions have the flags set differently. I'd be interested to know if that is the case for someone that did not need to make the modification.

Cheers