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Topic: How to set from address for Vacation responder?

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How can I set the Vacation auto-responder so that it sends its replies from the user's email address?  If joe@domain.me gets an email while Vacation responder is enabled, I'd like the reply to come from joe@domain.me.  Right now it comes from vmail@mail.domain.me.

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Re: How to set from address for Vacation responder?

According to RFC document (RFC5230: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5230#section-5.4):

Unless explicitly overridden with a :from parameter, the From field SHOULD be set to the address of the owner of the Sieve script.

So, this is normal. Looks like Roundcube managesieve doesn't input a ":from" parameter automatically, or let user edit it manually.

== UPDATE ==
I created a ticket in Roundcube web site to help track this issue: http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1489221

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Re: How to set from address for Vacation responder?

Aha, thanks for that.  Although if I create a brand new filter that replies to all messages I still get the reply from vmail@mail.domain.me.  Is it the same issue?

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Re: How to set from address for Vacation responder?

Did you have ":from your_email_address" in your sieve script?

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Re: How to set from address for Vacation responder?

I'm using Roundcube to set these so I don't have extra options.  But if I look on the server, my test filter I created looks like this:

# rule:[test]
if true
{
    vacation :days 1 :subject "test" "test";
}

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Re: How to set from address for Vacation responder?

Does it work if you add ":from" parameter manually? For example:

# rule:[test]
if true
{
    vacation :days 1 :from "user@domain.ltd" :subject "test" "test";
}

As mentioned in previous reply, i created a ticket to ask Roundcube developers to consider adding this feature:
http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1489221

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Re: How to set from address for Vacation responder?

Hi Zhang,

I tried adding :from manually as you put in your example but it looks like that doesn't have any effect.  The mail still has a from address of vmail@mail.domain.me.

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Re: How to set from address for Vacation responder?

I tested vacation with Dovecot-2.0 moment ago, here's what i got:

- Without ":from email_address", the auto-reply message has correct "From: recipient". Not "vmail@hostname" like yours.
- With ":from another_email_address", it shows "From: another_email-address" correctly.

So, i cannot reproduce your issue.

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Re: How to set from address for Vacation responder?

Big thanks for testing that.  I did some more digging and I found where my problem is coming from.  I have my iRedMail install on a Pacemaker cluster and I am using ssmtp as my default MTA so that I can get error emails from the passive node.  I haven't figured out how yet, but I think I need to find a way to specify my MTA as Postfix in the Dovecot config.

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Re: How to set from address for Vacation responder?

Alright I found the answer, I just put this in my dovecot.conf

sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix

And now it works as it should.  Sorry for the wild goose chase!  Hopefully this post will come up in Google if someone else runs into this issue later.

Thanks,
Doug