On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 08:27 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 15:49 +0300, Razvan Sandu wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Can anyone recommend me a good, simple solution for implementing vacation > > automatic replies on Fedora Core 4 ? A rpm-ized solution is preferred... > > > > Please note that: > > - the MTA is *Postfix*; > > - users are *virtual mailboxes* in the sense described at > > http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html#virtual_mailbox > > - POP3 server is *dovecot*; > > - POP3 passwords are kept in a *plain passwd-style file*, /etc/imap.passwd, > > which contain entries like: > > john.doe@xxxxxxxxxxxx:fXxvfcxbv.Xr:503:503:John > > Doe:/home/fakeuser/domains/mydomain.com/john.doe:/sbin/nologin > > > > All users are under the same UID & GID, 503:503, which belong to "fakeuser". > > Received mail goes to > > /home/fakeuser/domains/mydomain.com/john.doe, which is John Doe's Maildir > > mailbox. > > Does postfix with virtual mailboxes support procmail? If so, there's an > example of how to mimic vacation using procmail in "man procmailex". ---- not an answer to your question but another avenue...cyrus-imapd with sieve can do this with virtual users but it neither requires Postfix nor does it involve procmail. I found that using procmail for users was vacation scripts was messy - required a valid shell and a valid home directory. Craig
