[sork] vacation not working with qmail, autorespond, vpopmail

Rick Romero rick at havokmon.com
Thu Jun 21 16:19:42 UTC 2007


On Jun 21, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Claus Szypura wrote:

> Rick Romero <rick <at> havokmon.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Claus,
>>
>>
> Hi Rick,
> many thanks for the link to the files.
> At first glance (didn't try it yet) this
> should work, at least for a mysql based vpopmail default installation.
> One little bit of couriosity: did you do it for a popmail compiled  
> with
> --enable-many-domains (default). If so, I now have the task  
> adapting it for
> --without-many-domains,
> where each domain has its own table in the vpopmail
> database like so: my_first_domain_tld, my_second_domain_tld,
> anotherdomain_tld...
> because I did a compile configured --without-many-domains
>

My hack does not account for a table for each domain.   All domains  
are expected to be in the vpopmail table.

It should be trivial though to modify it to search a table based on  
the domain instead of the vpopmail table with an additional field.

Rick

> I will give it a try and give feedback here!
> Thanks again
> Claus
>
>
>> Here's what I attempted to post to the list:
>> ---------------------------
>> Hi All,
>>
>> This is based on Vacation H3 3.0
>>
>> I've created a vpopmailsql.php Driver that will create a 'qmailadmin'
>> compliant vacation message and .qmail file.  It still uses ftp to put
>> the data into the user's 'home' directory.  I saw a couple posts  
>> looking
>> for another way, but IMHO, using pureftp works just fine.  pureftp  
>> will
>> do SQL auths and grab the home dir from SQL, you can specify a uid  
>> (89
>> is usually vpopmail), and set the users chroot.
>>
>> Anyhow, an autorespond vacation message looks like:
>> From: email <at> home.com <newline>
>> Subject: Vacation <newline>
>> <newline>
>> Text
>> <newline>
>>
>> So the vpopmailsql.php does this for you.  I also modified the  
>> main.php
>> to display the vacation message correctly, as 3.0 doesn't do the  
>> 'From'
>> address.   The only bug is the 'Subject' line has an extra space  
>> at the
>> beginning because of how I snipped it.
>>
>> The driver uses mostly vars from the conf.php file, but I didn't  
>> finish
>> the SQL integration so Mysql_connect/query are hardcoded.
>>
>> I kinda ran out of steam.
>
>
>
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