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Q: Does 10.8 server have vacation messages

In 10.7 server, we had a great filter for vacation messages built into webmail.

Users could configure this quite easily.

 

I can't find either webmail or vacation messages in Mountain Lion Server 10.8.

 

Any solutions?

 

Cheers.

Mac OS X (10.7), 10.7 Server

Posted on Jul 29, 2012 5:27 AM

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  • by StevePW,

    StevePW StevePW Mar 1, 2013 4:36 AM in response to Danielson782
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    Mar 1, 2013 4:36 AM in response to Danielson782

    Apologies for the delayed response but I find restarting the Mail and Web services on completing config usually gets it working. Not sure which one makes it work and if I'm feeling lazy and circumstances permit I'll just reboot the server.

  • by stephen.willis.smith,

    stephen.willis.smith stephen.willis.smith Mar 29, 2013 10:11 AM in response to redshift82r
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    Mar 29, 2013 10:11 AM in response to redshift82r

    Still Cannot get Filters to work redshift....

    telnet 127.0.0.1 4190:

     

     

    Trying 127.0.0.1...

    Connected to localhost.

    Escape character is '^]'.

    "IMPLEMENTATION" "Dovecot Pigeonhole"

    "SIEVE" "fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave"

    "NOTIFY" "mailto"

    "SASL" "CRAM-MD5 X-PLAIN-SUBMIT DIGEST-MD5 GSSAPI LOGIN PLAIN"

    "STARTTLS"

    "VERSION" "1.0"

    OK "Dovecot ready."

  • by stephen.willis.smith,

    stephen.willis.smith stephen.willis.smith Mar 29, 2013 10:13 AM in response to stephen.willis.smith
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    Mar 29, 2013 10:13 AM in response to stephen.willis.smith

    Also do you know how to get read receipts working so that it doesn't matter where the message is sent or recived (ipad,Iphone, mac etc) it will send one?  Cause right now if I say send a read receipt t will only work if it is from with in roundcube...  

  • by Thor HoG,

    Thor HoG Thor HoG Mar 29, 2013 12:09 PM in response to stephen.willis.smith
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    Mar 29, 2013 12:09 PM in response to stephen.willis.smith

    I've always worked directly with Dovecot and Sieve - I've never seen roudcube as I've never needed anything else.

     

    Dovecot may be a bit more "manual," but it's quite easy to write up scripts and test them against sample emails to see what would have been done.

     

    As such you can set up replies, receipts, forwarders, trashes, etc for both system-wide and user-centric scripts.  Not only that, but once you get familiar with that, you can them jump back and forth between postfix access-lists (such as IP filers or Domain filters) and customizing Dovecot's error/status reporting when NDRs or rejects *very* granularly.

     

    If I get an email from Afghanistan, I can reply with "Durka Durka!" If I get an email from foo@bar.com I can reply with "It's 'FUBAR' due."  Or general Dovecot error messages.  I assume all that roundcube does is script up the same.

     

    In a pinch, you can even telnet into Sieve to fix something when you are away.  I use a Perl script to manage it and it's a snap.

     

    If you want to go in that direction, I'm happy to help and can even post examples.  Some references are:

     

    http://fastmail.wikia.com/wiki/SieveExamples

    http://fastmail.wikia.com/wiki/SieveRecipes

    http://www.michael-hammer.at/server_config/mail_filter/

    http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Examples

     

    That should get you started if you are interested.

    t

     

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  • by stephen.willis.smith,

    stephen.willis.smith stephen.willis.smith Mar 29, 2013 1:23 PM in response to Thor HoG
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    Mar 29, 2013 1:23 PM in response to Thor HoG

    Ok so were do I put these?

    How do I make sure read reciepts are sent from certain server accounts no matter what device?

    How do I set up vacations alerts?

    I don't even know where to start....

  • by Thor HoG,

    Thor HoG Thor HoG Mar 29, 2013 1:55 PM in response to stephen.willis.smith
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    Mar 29, 2013 1:55 PM in response to stephen.willis.smith

    Reading the documentation in the links will take a little time, but it should help you identify the requirements.  They are actually relatively simple once you get your head around it.

     

    I'm assuming you have access to the /library/server/mail/config/dovecot/conf.d files on the server.  There they contain the various access-controls for Dovecot.  Sieve is a separate-but-related service where you will upload scripts to in order to configure rules.

     

    If you don't have acces to the server, then I apologize for that assumption.  I am aware this may be a bit confusing going in and requires some level of a learning curve, but given your roundcube product doesn't work, I don't really know what other direction to point you to.  There are clients such as Thunderbird that have Sieve plugins that allow the client to configure and upload their own, but again, I don't know what influence you have over those decisions.

     

    t

  • by stephen.willis.smith,

    stephen.willis.smith stephen.willis.smith Mar 29, 2013 9:17 PM in response to Thor HoG
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    Mar 29, 2013 9:17 PM in response to Thor HoG

    yeah I unfortunatley I am the one that runs the server....

    I just got roundcube working so I now get out of office responses!!!

     

    So now I just need the read reciepts...  I'll check out the links

    Thanks

  • by kginger_consulting,

    kginger_consulting kginger_consulting Apr 11, 2013 11:09 PM in response to Danielson782
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    Apr 11, 2013 11:09 PM in response to Danielson782

    I've checked everything, I click on Filters and get "An Error Occured!" "Unable to connect to Server" I have my debug set to true but am not getting any log messages... Ideas? Thanks!

  • by raydelsol,

    raydelsol raydelsol Jul 14, 2013 9:40 AM in response to redshift82r
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    Jul 14, 2013 9:40 AM in response to redshift82r

    THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!

  • by Free Tibet,

    Free Tibet Free Tibet Sep 24, 2013 9:00 AM in response to Thor HoG
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    Sep 24, 2013 9:00 AM in response to Thor HoG

    I am having issues now where I can't turn off vacation notice, its getting scarry

  • by Free Tibet,

    Free Tibet Free Tibet Sep 24, 2013 9:28 AM in response to Free Tibet
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    Sep 24, 2013 9:28 AM in response to Free Tibet

    vacation notices are being sent out for 3 users but only ever been set up for one...

    I have deleted all roundcube.sieve & dovecot.sieve files in the /server/mail/data/rules/$u/ folders...

    then set up a new rule for the only user who ever had this set up....

    he then sends out the new message.....

    if I disable the vacation notice in roundcube for that user then the old vacation notice gets sent out which I cannot find anywhere there seems to be a ghost in the machine, if i re enable the new vacation notice then the new one goes out and not the old one.... ......

    If I delete the vacation notice the old one goes out......

    Help....

  • by UptimeJeff,

    UptimeJeff UptimeJeff Oct 2, 2013 11:50 AM in response to pilbaraecho
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    Oct 2, 2013 11:50 AM in response to pilbaraecho

    Freshly posted:

    http://topicdesk.com/downloads/roundcube

     

    This is an automated installation of Roundcube.

    It configures postgres, initializes the database, installs mcrypt and configures a Roundcube WebApp.

     

    About 2 minutes to install, at the end it will load your default site (/mail) with Rouncube working.

     

    This installation includes managesieve (vacation filters, etc) pre-configured..

     

     

     

    10.8.x only

  • by Free Tibet,

    Free Tibet Free Tibet Oct 2, 2013 12:11 PM in response to Free Tibet
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    Oct 2, 2013 12:11 PM in response to Free Tibet

    I would like to say that this was a red herring, a user had configured the 3 accounts on his mac with a rule in mail to send an auto reply... I did not realise this as I had not visited the site and it was contrary to all our advice, and they flat denied it, but logs don't lie this user had set up a rule in mail and that is where the issue arose from....

  • by davidh,

    davidh davidh Oct 29, 2013 8:07 PM in response to redshift82r
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    Oct 29, 2013 8:07 PM in response to redshift82r

    Thanks for this, very helpful.

     

    But you need to change

     

    sudo createdb -O roundcube -E UNICODE roundcubemail

     

    to

     

    sudo createdb -U _postgres -O roundcube -E UNICODE -W roundcubemail

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