Re: Possible Sieve vacation bug (Was: [exim] Sieve vacation)

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:43:41PM +0100, Bob Johannessen wrote:
> >>My thinking was that a script /test/ should never write anything to that
> >>directory, so it wouldn't hurt just to hard-code it when running the
> >>test. I could be wrong though...
> >
> >If you would give it a vacation directory, it would use it. That's why
> >it does not have any right now. ;-)
>
> That's too bad. Having Exim syntax check Sieve scripts is a really nice
> feature.

So that's why you would like that. I will look into it, but it is
unlikely I can come up with a patch RSN.

> >>And one last question: In a virtual environment would it be safe to use
> >>one sieve_vacation_directory for all users?
> >
> >No, each user must have its own vacation directory or you may run into
> >databases being used for more than one user.
>
> Then isn't that a problem for aliases as well?

Sieve requires that keep is equivalent to filing the message to the
users inbox. Aliases have no inbox, so you can not run Sieve filters
on aliases if obeying the RFC strictly.

In the beginning, I thought this was a restriction, because I have quite
some role accounts all pointing to my mailbox and I wanted filters for
all of them. By now I found it way easier to run a central filter that
looks at the envelope recipient, where needed.

Michael