[sork] Vacation and Forwards on virtual users/domains server

[Simon Brereton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sork-bounces at lists.horde.org [mailto:sork-bounces at lists.horde.org]
> On Behalf Of Eric Jon Rostetter
> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 11:11 AM


> Quoting Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at dada.net>:
> 
> > 5   Known Problems
> >
> > 5.1   FTP/Dot-forward Driver
> 
> This only applies to the ftp/dot-forward driver.  Presumably if you
> are using virtual users, you use some other driver (ldap, sql, etc).
> 
> > Virtual users do not have an account.  So where would this .forward
> > file be placed/found/located?
> 
> You would not use that driver, but instead one of the others.  This
> would imply your mail system has a vacation mechanism built in for
> some mechanism (sql or ldap based for example).
> 
> > Perhaps a more fitting response would be a 4 line item on the
> > approach to take when using virtual users (after-all, in most cases
> > authentication is already done against the IMAP server).
> 
> Figure out which mail system you use.  Figure out if it supports
> forwards and vacation notices.  If it does, figure out how it stores
> the configuration data (sql, ldap, files, etc).  From that information
> you can either pick an existing driver, or create a new one.

Creating a driver may be a bit beyond my skillset..  But I don't know if this helps the OP - but it will help me.  Both Courier and Postfix support this (I believe) and my SQL scheme has fields for a vacation response (and a forwarding, though forwarding is essential to mail delivery, so I'm not sure I can mess with that).  

Thanks Eric.

SPB