Re: "Vacation" command for postfix

[Herbie <technowombat@yahoo.com>]

We use procmail, and just include a procmail vacation filter, it gives a 
lot of flexibility, and we have a web front end for setting it up.

herbie


#################################################
:0
* DEBUG ?? yes
{ LOG="DEBUG: FILTER: filter.vacation
"
}
#################################################
# make sure we have a good shell for this to work, but set it back
# to whatever it was once finished.
OLDSHELL=${SHELL}
SHELL=/bin/sh

:0 BH  #LOOP-CHECK
* $ ! ^>? *X-Loop: ${LOGNAME}@uic.edu
{ }

:0 AWhc: ${HOME}/.vacation.lock
* !^FROM_DAEMON
* !.*listmanager
* !^Precedence: (Bulk|Junk)
* !^Resent-(By|From|To|Sender):
* !^List-[0-9a-z]*:
* !^BestServHost:
* !^X-ListName:
* !^X-Listprocessor
* !^X-Listserver:
* !^X-Lyris-(To|MemberID|MessageID):
* !^Received:.*majordom
* !^From.*noreply@uic.edu
* !^From.*nowhere@uic.edu
* !^From.*spamreport@uic.edu
* !^From.*consult@uic.edu
* !^From.*eclerk@helpdesk.admin.uillinois.edu
* !^UICClass: UICClass Spam
| formail -rD 8192 ${HOME}/.vacation.cache
:0 ehc
| (formail -rA"Precedence: junk" \
-I"From: ${LOGNAME}@uic.edu" \
-A"X-Loop: ${LOGNAME}@uic.edu" ; \
cat ${HOME}/.vacation.msg ;\
) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t

#######################
#  call the attachment stripper to reject attachments over a certain size.
ATTACHMENT_SIZE_LIMIT=${VACATION__ATTACHMENT_REJECT_SIZE}
:0 f
* VACATION__REJECT_BY_SIZE ?? yes
| /usr/local/mailfilters/filter.attachment_strip.pl


#######################
SHELL=${OLDSHELL}

################################################


On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Erich Schroeder wrote:

> A while ago I switched from sendmail to postfix (running Fedora). I'm not 
> convinced that it was worth it as I was pretty conversant with sendmail, but 
> I do agree that postfix is easier to become conversant with...
>
> But. I've got people who want the "out of office" thing, and I  don't know 
> how to do it. The vacation command was part of the sendmail rpm, I believe. 
> And anyway, I really want the email people to have non-shell accounts, and 
> vacation required me to give those accounts shell access.
>
> What are some options for for this?
>
> Erich
>
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