[sork] vacations - without spamming mailinglist

[Mike Cochrane]

> ----- Message from kl at vsen.dk ---------
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm trying to setup my IMP - and I've got everything running - except
> for the sork modules and ingo, as I need to figure out how these will
> work the best.
> 

You probably don't want vacation/forwards and ingo at the same time. Ingo does
both of those with Sieve on cyrus mail servers. If you don't have a cyrus mail
server then stop reading now cause nothing else i say applies to you :-)

> My hope was that the final product would work something like this:
> 
> vacation:
> I should be able to define a a given period, and ofcourse a text via the
> web interface.
Not really possible, as noted in previous replies. But if you're really cleave
you may be able to do it using the regular expressions extension of Sieve to
make the valid Date head fields in emails for the time period. Could be tricky,
but usefull.

> I should be able to select, if I want the vacation message applied
> before or after, my filters (ie. if I filter mailinglists into
> subfolders, I would perhaps like the vacation message to not be applied
> to those ;)
Ingo has options to not send vacation messages if list headers are set. Vacation
messages are sent before filters in Ingo, issues with implicit sends etc would
cause a lot of messages to not get vacation messages when expected.

> I should be able to select, if a vacation message should only be sent
> out once pr. sender, or just for every email - no matter if it's the
> same sender address (I do this with procmail today).
This could be done. The vacation extension in Sieve has an option to select how
many days to remember and address for before resending a vacation message. I
think this can be set to 0.

> Is this also what you are hoping will come out of the vacation (and
> perhaps other) module(s)?

Ingo does everything I want :-) feel free to contribute anything you want.

- Mike :-)