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==Vacation Message==
 yum --enablerepo=smecontribs install smeserver-vacation
Setup an automatic 'out of office' email reply. 


=== Version ===
{{ #smeversion: smeserver-vacation }}


===Overview===
Admin (and possibly users themselves, see below) can enable a vacation message for individual users. In addition to manually enabling and disabling the vacation message for a user, also automatic start and end dates for sending out vacation messages can be set in the server manager panel.


===Grant users access to vacation panel===

If you install [[:UserManager]] and delegate the user-vacation panel to users they can prepare and enable their vacation message themselves.

====Only for SME9====

If you install [[:UserManager]] and delegate to users the 'uservacations', they can manage by default the vacation message of all users. However it is needed sometime to restrict a user to certain groups, or just one group.

* The user 'helene' will be able to manage only users belong to the group 'parents'
 db accounts setprop helene delegatedVacations 'parents'

* The user 'helene' will be able to manage only users belong to the groups 'famille' and 'enfants'
 db accounts setprop helene delegatedVacations 'enfants,famille'

* Remove all group based restriction
 db accounts setprop helene delegatedVacations ''
or
 db accounts delprop helene delegatedVacations

===Automatic enabling and disabling of vacation messages===

The server-manager panel provides two fields where you can enter start and end dates for the vacation message of a user.
These date values will be checked by a simple cron script every night, in order to enable or disable the vacation message of this user at the given dates, respectively.

The two date fields in the server-manager panel are not programatically validated with respect to common-sense, so some rules apply:

* Start date has to be before end date
* Start date must not be the same as the end date (for single day holidays, set end date to the following day).
* If the intended start date is in the future (from "now"), the checkbox for enabling the vacation message should be unchecked (otherwise vacation messages will be sent out from "now" on).

If you do not want to use this automatic functionality, simply leave both fields empty.


===Configuration===

*Only one reply is sent to each sender until the Repeat interval is reached

Change  the  interval  between  repeat  replies  to the same<br>
sender. The default is 1 week. A trailing s, m, h, d,  or  w<br>
scales  the  number  N  to  seconds, minutes, hours, days or<br>
weeks respectively. For example, to set the  interval  value<br>
to 3 days you would specify -t3d.  There should be no spaces<br>
between the -t and N.

configure, then apply to all users, 
 config setprop qmail VacationDelay -t3d
 or
 config delprop qmail VacationDelay
 
 /etc/e-smith/events/actions/qmail-update-user

* Addresses to be replied to:
All mail for the user including pseudonyms and groups will send the reply message.


===User Shell Access===

If a user has shell access they can use advanced vacation functions :
 man vacation

====Vacation responses====

The vacation handling routine stores whom has been send a vacation
message, it's possible for the user to generate a list of those addresses
if the user has shell access.

 #  /usr/local/bin/vacation -s jane

 Welcome back!
 While you were away, vacation mail was sent to the following addresses: 
 
 garry@site.com
    Wed Sep 17 18:40:45 2008
 wally@abc.net.au
    Wed Sep 17 18:23:56 2008


====No Replies====

Apart from the default no replies Vacation will also not generate a reply
if the sender matches any of the mail addresses listed in the
optional files ~/.vacation.aliases or ~/.vacation.noreply.

===Troubleshooting===

====Envelope sender not allowed when using remote SMTP====

It is possible to specify a custom sender domain in the "From:"-header of a user's vacation message. If this custom sender Domain is not registered as a valid primary or secondary domain in SME server-manager, chances are that remote SMTP servers will reject the vacation message (550 envelope sender not allowed).

Some remote SMTP servers will forward the vacation message nonetheless in that case, if an additional "Return-Path:"-header (using the same sender address) is set in the vacation message, eg. before the first blank line separating the body of the mail, one can write:

   From: user@customdoma.in
   Return-Path: user@customdoma.in
   Subject: Away from my mail - $SUBJECT

====Disable cron status mail====

If you wish to disable the status mail from cron, follow the workaround given in http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7555#c26

This may be suppressed in a future release.

Also refer to  http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,51952.0.html


=== Bugs ===

{{#bugzilla:columns=id,product,version,status,summary |sort=id|order=desc |component=smeserver-vacation|noresultsmessage="No open bugs found."}}
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