> Am 08.02.2023 um 09:27 schrieb Stephan Bosch <[email protected]>:
>> On 8-2-2023 13:10, Dr. Rolf Jansen wrote:
>>> Am 08.02.2023 um 08:37 schrieb Stephan Bosch <[email protected]>:
>>> 
>>> https://doc.dovecot.org/settings/pigeonhole-ext/vacation/#pigeonhole_setting-sieve_vacation_send_from_recipient
>>> 
>>> On 7-2-2023 15:01, Dr. Rolf Jansen wrote:
>>>> To begin with, usage of Amazons Simple Email Service (SES) is mandatory 
>>>> for outgoing mails from AWS-EC2 instances. The Pro is, it does work and we 
>>>> may utilize email relays with high reputation for our outgoing mails at no 
>>>> additional costs. The Con's are that (A) SES does not relay mails with 
>>>> empty <> MAIL FROM addresses and (B) it fiddles with the envelope 
>>>> addresses of the relayed mails.
>>>> 
>>>> Anyway this is out of our control, and while I could avoid (A) by 
>>>> switching the e-mail service provider, I still have no control over (B) 
>>>> because this affects replying to emails from others using AWS-SES.
>>>> 
>>>> Problem A) The empty-MAIL-FROM may be effectively addressed by setting 
>>>> Pigeonhole’s sieve_vacation_send_from_recipient to ‚yes‘.
>> Yes that’s important for resolving problem A, and I wrote this already (s. 
>> above).
>> 
>> Without my patch, problem B remains unresolved, though.
> 
> Oh, right..let's say it's early here.
> Your patch seems a bit risky though. It will try to send replies to whatever 
> is in sender, resent-from, or from header (whichever is found first in that 
> order), without considering where it might have actually come from. Just 
> hoping that MTA in between checks whether headers match the envelope, before 
> it is mangled by AWS.

There is this yet undocumented commit from from 2017:

https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2017-August/028917.html

My guess is that this was intended to resolve problem B, but it was not 
effective, because the envelope sender always made it into the variable smtp_to.

My patch only finishes this new setting from 2017. With the patch in place we 
my switch between the two options by said new setting from 2017:

-- sieve_vacation_to_header_ignore_envelope = yes

   reply to whatever is in sender, resent-from, or from header.

-- sieve_vacation_to_header_ignore_envelope = no (the default option)

   reply to the envelope sender

That said, I did not do an in-deep analysis of the code of Pigeonhole. There 
may well be better places for fixing of 
sieve_vacation_to_header_ignore_envelope is falling short.

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