Sieve - Vacation

#1 06-06-2008, 01:37 PM

Hi, I have a quick question for someone regarding Sieve & Vacation.
We have a customer that is interested in making it so that their out-
of-office replies go out for every email, even if the sender had
previously sent an email earlier that day and already received one.
Not something I have ever really tried to do before, as nobody has
ever asked me for such a thing. Is there a way I can go about this?
I cant set days to anything lower than 1, I was looking for a solution
like clearing the db of already replied addresses or not checking it
to begin with.
Thanks
-Tim

#2 06-07-2008, 08:45 AM

You didn't mention which Sieve implementation, but if you're talking
about Cyrus, you can't do what you want without modifying the source code.

Tim wrote:
> Hi, I have a quick question for someone regarding Sieve & Vacation.
> We have a customer that is interested in making it so that their out-
> of-office replies go out for every email, even if the sender had
> previously sent an email earlier that day and already received one.
> Not something I have ever really tried to do before, as nobody has
> ever asked me for such a thing. Is there a way I can go about this?
> I cant set days to anything lower than 1, I was looking for a solution
> like clearing the db of already replied addresses or not checking it
> to begin with.
> Thanks
> -Tim

#3 06-09-2008, 07:24 AM

In article <ee872f47-f5fa-499b-a814-1dfc8cc023a3@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, Tim <timrenzi@gmail.com> writes:
>Hi, I have a quick question for someone regarding Sieve & Vacation.
>We have a customer that is interested in making it so that their out-
>of-office replies go out for every email, even if the sender had
>previously sent an email earlier that day and already received one.
>Not something I have ever really tried to do before, as nobody has
>ever asked me for such a thing. Is there a way I can go about this?
>I cant set days to anything lower than 1, I was looking for a solution
>like clearing the db of already replied addresses or not checking it
>to begin with.

Not checking it is probably not a good idea. The idea of not sending an out of
reply message for every message received from an address is to stop potential
mail loops.

David Webb
Security team leader
CCSS
Middlesex University

>Thanks
>-Tim

#4 06-15-2008, 02:54 PM

Tim <timrenzi@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have a customer that is interested in making it so that their out-
> of-office replies go out for every email [...]

Oh goodie; let's play denial of service. Maybe someone will send you an
email that purports to have come from you. Now watch your mail server
eat up those CPU cycles and fill up the disk...

Chris

#5 06-16-2008, 03:48 PM

On Jun 15, 2:54*pm, Chris Davies <chris-use...@roaima.co.uk> wrote:
> Tim <timre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > We have a customer that is interested in making it so that their out-
> > of-office replies go out for every email [...]
>
> Oh goodie; let's play denial of service. Maybe someone will send you an
> email that purports to have come from you. Now watch your mail server
> eat up those CPU cycles and fill up the disk...
>
> Chris

I warned them repeatedly of the consequences of an action of this
nature. I tried to dissuade them for weeks, to no avail. So I ended
up writing a simple auto-reply script for them to use, and now I will
count the days until they beg me to go back to the old system.

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