[imp] [horde] Out of office autoreply

[Otto Stolz]

Hello,

I had written:
> I guess, Horde/Imp is the
> wrong place to implement an autoreply: When you are
> out of office, you will not invoke Webmail, hence
> you would not trigger the reply.

On which Gerald Dachs has replied:
> I could use the Horde module Ingo [...] to configure sieve.
> Sieve is working even without invoking the Webmail client,
...
> you can use sieve even for an automatic vacation reply.
> To say that Horde/Imp is the wrong place for doing this
> is not generally right.

Hence, I have *not* said that Horde is the wrong place
to issue a Sieve script. (On the contrary, I have mentioned
this possibility, further down in my contribution.)
What I have said (o tried to say), in the paragraph quoted
supra, is that Horde is the wrong place to do the actual
autoreplying.

To put it in a nutshell: You need an autoreplying mechanism,
in your IMAP server (or in the e-mail channel leading there).
If you have that in place, you can, of course, trigger it
from the Horde framework or from any other suitable user
interface. (We have chosen to have that independent from Horde.)

Best wishes,
   Otto Stolz