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Vacation Autoresponders in Lion Server

Hi everyone.


Has anyone else had any luck setting up autoresponders in 10.7 Lion?

It was advertised as one of the 'new' features, but I dont see it anywhere.


In SL, it was located on the user's wiki pages.


I have server side rules enabled in Server Admin 10.7


Cheers!

Alan.

Mac OS X (10.7), 10.7 Server

Posted on Jul 24, 2011 12:28 AM

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Posted on Jul 30, 2011 1:54 AM

1. "Enable Webmail" in the Server application under the Mail service and make sure Mail Server is on.


2. Goto http://localhost/webmail in your browser and log in


3. In the top right hand corner, click on Settings


4. Select the Filters tab


5. Add a new filter to match All incoming messages and select "Reply with message".



I have not played with this a lot yet, however, it looks like you can create groups of filters and can be enabled and disabled.


Simon.

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Jul 30, 2011 1:54 AM in response to pilbaraecho

1. "Enable Webmail" in the Server application under the Mail service and make sure Mail Server is on.


2. Goto http://localhost/webmail in your browser and log in


3. In the top right hand corner, click on Settings


4. Select the Filters tab


5. Add a new filter to match All incoming messages and select "Reply with message".



I have not played with this a lot yet, however, it looks like you can create groups of filters and can be enabled and disabled.


Simon.

Aug 15, 2011 11:44 AM in response to JeroenPotters(Macpot.nl)

As I said in my original reply, I haven't played with this a lot, and when I received the "that works perfectly" message, I thought everything was OK.


I have spent a couple of hours playing this afternoon and I also have the problem that no vaction message is being sent. I created a Filter Group and added another Filter to it (to redirect the mail) and this worked OK, so server-side filtering is working, just not the Reply with message (vacation) part.


If you download the Additional Server Tools, in ServerAdmin, under Mail / Filters there is an option to turn on and off server side mail rules. In my case, this was already turned on.


OS X Lion appears to be using Dovecot for it's webmail. The server-side filters are called Dovecot Sieves. There seems to be a lot more information about the Vacation Sieve on Google than there is currently about OS X Lion Server. I am trying to get some clues here.


Ideas to consider (any comments appreciated):


1. Are my vacation messages being created and then failing to send due to some permissions, restrictions?


2. Do I need to be running any server-side daemons?


3. I would be interested to see if the "number of replies per day" functionality is working. I recall there were some issues with this in Snow Leopard Server.


I will keep looking and get back to this post if I find anything.


Simon

Vacation Autoresponders in Lion Server

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