On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:16:15PM +0100, Sujit Choudhury wrote:
> In the Exim FAQ, there is an explanation of vacation program on mail hub
> (Q0431). It works fine only if the staff were on the mail hub!
> The other example (Q9813), when there is no local user points to example
> C019. If I understand correctly, it will be necessary to re-load the
> configuration file each time a user goes to holiday or come back from
> holiday. Is there any way of getting round this problem and use the
> vacation program on staff server?
I'm confused- your mail is going in to the hub and then out to
external systems where the staff will read it?
A setup that requires you to reload the config file every time someone
changes their vacation status is evil IMHO. We have a local LDAP
server and allow people to configure their vacation status in their
LDAP entry:
# DIRECTOR
ldapvacation:
driver = localuser
transport = ldapvacation_transport
unseen
no_expn
no_verify
user = ${local_part}
# do not reply to errors or lists
senders = "! ^.*-request@.*:\
! ^owner-.*@.*:\
! ^.*-admin@.*:\
! ^postmaster@.*:\
! ^listmaster@.*:\
! ^mailer-daemon@.*"
# do not reply to errors and bounces or lists
condition = "${if or {{match {$h_precedence:} {(?i)junk|bulk|list}} {eq {$sender_address} {}}} {no} {${lookup ldap{ldap:///ou=People,o=Excite,c=GB??sub?(&(objectClass=excitePerson)(uid=${local_part})(vacationMessage=*))}{yes}{no}}}}"
# TRANSPORT
ldapvacation_transport:
driver = autoreply
user = ${local_part}
once = ${home}/vacation-once.db
once_repeat = 2d
log = ${home}/vacation-log.txt
return_message = true
text = "\
------ ------\n\n\
This message was automatically generated by email software\n\
The delivery of your message has not been affected.\n\n\
This message will be repeated no more often than every 2 days.\n\n\
------ ------\n\n\
${lookup ldap{ldap:///ou=People,o=Excite,c=GB?vacationMessage?sub?(uid=${local_part})}{$value}fail}"
#to = "${sender_address}"
to = "${if def:h_Errors-To: {$h_Errors-To:} {$sender_address}}"
subject = "${if def:h_Subject: {Autoreply: $h_Subject:} {I am on vacation}}"
It's somewhat messy, but it seems to work nicely.
Anyway, my point is that if you have a director that dispatches local
users off to satellite storage systems, you can drop a director like
this (notably with "unseen", "no_verify", "no_expn") ahead of it. The
mail will still be delivered to the satellite, and the vacation notice
will be sent from the hub.
HTH
SRH
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