Hello, I suggest a sieve plugin, more than a vacation specific plugin.

We use sieverules (https://github.com/JohnDoh/Roundcube-Plugin-SieveRules-Managesieve) and works well.

I'm not sure if you can fix a start and stop date for the vacation message (maybe in last versions), but with sieve you can always define a rule and decide to apply vacation message only if the date of the message is between the two dates you want. Not perfect as the date of the message is taken (afaik) from sender computer.

Best regards.

El 24/10/2013 10:33, Davide Perini escribió:

Hi, is there a vacation plugin for roundcube that works well with the latest version of roundcube?

Can you suggest to use one plugin in particular? I would like something that let me choose a start date and a stop date for the vacation message.

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These are a bad idea.

They are often implemented in a bad way and spam mailing lists, and debates with multiple recipients. You've probably seen it. Five people are talking, one goes on vacation, and now every every time the remaining four add something to the debate using "reply all", they get a "I'm on vacation" from the fifth guy.

An auto-responder must only fire when the Cc: line is empty, and there is only a single recipient on the To: line. But this then fails in some circumstances, the most obvious of which is that you send a mail To: A, and Cc: B, and both A and B have gone on vacation, yet their auto-responders do nothing since each one sees that there are multiple recipients.

A vacation responder must be aware of all the threads in your inbox so that it can distinguish a new discussion that you are being pulled into, from an existing discussion, and it should track everyone to whom it has sent the vacation notice so it is never sent twice to anyone (for the same vacation event).

Another problem is that an auto-responder will likely reply to spam no matter how carefully crafted it is.

It is not possible for a robot to determine with perfect certainty whether an e-mail requires action or not.

Basically, when you go on vacation, there are certain important business contacts who should know you're not available, and so you proactively them know, and that's it. And as far as your personal e-mail goes, unless you're backpacking through the wilderness somewhere, check the damn thing once a day while you're in vacation!

On 24.10.2013 03:11, Benny Pedersen wrote:

Davide Perini skrev den 2013-10-24 10:33:

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is there a vacation plugin for roundcube that works well with the latest version of roundcube?

none exists imho

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Can you suggest to use one plugin in particular?

nope

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I would like something that let me choose a start date and a stop date for the vacation message.

start and stop date is poosible in sieve scripting, but missing in managesive with roundcube, so if the mailserver supports sieve this is the best route to solve it

if you need more help tell more info on what mailserver software is in use

sieve is not just a roundcube feature btw, thunderbird supports it aswell :)

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Kaz Kylheku skrev den 2013-10-24 21:16:

These are a bad idea.

it sounds so, but in real life i cant do it with dovecot pigenhole since it skips reporting if precedence header is found :)

They are often implemented in a bad way and spam mailing lists, and debates with multiple recipients. You've probably seen it. Five people are talking, one goes on vacation, and now every every time the remaining four add something to the debate using "reply all", they get a "I'm on vacation" from the fifth guy.

this happends if vacation scripts dont take into account of maillists

An auto-responder must only fire when the Cc: line is empty, and there is only a single recipient on the To: line. But this then fails in some circumstances, the most obvious of which is that you send a mail To: A, and Cc: B, and both A and B have gone on vacation, yet their auto-responders do nothing since each one sees that there are multiple recipients.

cc empty ?

to contains rcu now

unsafe world :-)

A vacation responder must be aware of all the threads in your inbox so that it can distinguish a new discussion that you are being pulled into, from an existing discussion, and it should track everyone to whom it has sent the vacation notice so it is never sent twice to anyone (for the same vacation event).

search for precedence haeder if found do not tell vacation

Another problem is that an auto-responder will likely reply to spam no matter how carefully crafted it is.

this why some tell there vacation scrips there known sender lists imho

but it could be unsafe if spf or dkim does not pass

It is not possible for a robot to determine with perfect certainty whether an e-mail requires action or not.

+1

Basically, when you go on vacation, there are certain important business contacts who should know you're not available, and so you proactively them know, and that's it. And as far as your personal e-mail goes, unless you're backpacking through the wilderness somewhere, check the damn thing once a day while you're in vacation!

vacation single days ?