Out of Office / Autoreply – 10.3 Server – Squirrelmail?

[FVR]

Hi,

I’m currently evaluating mailservers and want to set up an autoreply feature for Mac OS X 10.3 Server. I figured that the easiest route would be to add this feature somewhere in squirrelmail, as I already intend to use it for web based email and users can configure it theirselves without intervention of the admin. I have found out of office plugins for sendmail, but not for postfix.

Are there people on this board who are using autoreply functionality on their mailserver? How did you solve this issue? A pointer in the right direction would be most helpful.

Frederik

[Anonymous]

[quote:b1071caec4=”MacTroll”]SquirrelMail is just an interface for a “vacation” program.

We are working on getting the sieve filtering system of Cyrus, the IMAP/POP server in Panther, working on 10.3. Once this is up and running you’ll easily be able to set up vacation processing, plus there should be a plugin for SquirrelMail to work with it.
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I know, and vacation seems to be painfully absent in 10.3, although I read somewhere you can get it to work with postfix as well.

Thanks for the quick reply. I’ll look into the sieve route with a collegue of mine and see what we can do. So I have a bunch of questions :

Is there already a squirrelmail plugin for the sieve system?

If there is anything worth mentioning about the implementation, please do.

[Anonymous]

Any updates on this?

This is the only thing keeping me from replacing my aging OS9 mailserver with a brand new Mac OS X Server one.

FVR

P.S. I forgot my password and registration email adress… d’oh!

[Anonymous]

I am really interested on this too. I tried to search thru the net if anybody has done autoreply on the OS X Panther and have found nothing much on the subject. I used and followed your articles here on spam and anti-virus controls and have emensely benefited from them.

Thank you guys for a very helpful site!

[rlovett]

MacTroll,

Would you mind posting the steps you took to get this working. I understand the security issue with your solution but would like to get sieve and the vacation plugins working as a proof of concept. Any help with this would be much appreciated. It’s hard to believe that Apple did not include auto-responder functionality in the Mail Server portion of Panther Server.

Thanks,
Ray

[Anonymous]

I to cannot wait for a good implementation of a autoresponder for the server, as it is just one of thoes very helpful facilities to provide for users – especially in a business setting 😀

I’m not that up on command line kind of stuff, but do want a autoresponder, so have been trawling the net, and discovered this perl programme. It seems to work in that I can turn it on and off in the terminal, but doesn’t seem to actually do what it should do though! It may be something I’m doing or something that someone more knowledgeable can see what’s wrong 😉

The thought of a perl script is tempting if it can work.

The site I found it at is http://www.emailman.com/vacation/index.html

Justyn

BTW – afp548.com is an excellent site – it’s helped me move in my understand of OS X server

[Anonymous]

oddly enough – my install of 10.3.2 server had the timsieved binary already in the cyrus directory. i just added sieve to /etc/services and restarted the mail services, and it *seems* to be functioning (I can telnet to port 2000 and connect to timsieved). now i just have to do some learning on how sieve works (and/or track down a squirrelmail plug in that works with seive).

any pointers on where to look?

[Anonymous]

sure enough – can’t authenticate (a fact i didn’t bother to test until after i posted, but in my defense the impression i got from reading other comments on this and other sites was that it wasn’t present at all). shows how ignorant i can be.

so now i’m confused, and guess i’ll ought to wait for backfill to clarify (as i’m by no means a unix guru). i’ll have to do some digging on my own, but what’s the difference between the sasl2 that’s currently running on my 10.3 server, and the SASL in your instructions?

[Anonymous]

Has anyone got an out of office reply working in OS X 10.3 server. It would be great if there was a simple to config plugin for squirrelmail to address this gap.

[FVR]

It’s been a while since I had the chance to look into this, but I have installed the sieve vacation system successfully on Mac OS X Server 10.3.5. After installation, I was required to force quit and reboot saslauthd though using the following commands :

killall saslathd
/usr/local/saslathd -a PAM

Everything worked fine after that. Next thing up will be the spam/antivirus installation with clam and amavisd.

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