Vacation AND mail forwarding together and not XOR

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* Jakob Boos <jakob.boos at freenet.de> [20060420 20:00]:
> I'm wondering why it isn't possible to set a vacation message and to forward
> incoming mail to a defined mail address. All of my users are working with
> Outlook or Squirrelmail. Nobody works with KDE/Kontact. During vacation, the
> policy is, that a vacation message is set and that incoming mail is
> forwarded to another person. Kolab's policy is not to allow both vacation
> and mail forwarding.
> 
> To solve this problem, I installed the avelsieve plugin for Squirrelmail.
> But that's not a good solution, because I'd like to have all admin functions
> in one interface, hopefully the Kolab admin interface.
> 
> Could anyone explain to me why the Kolab admin interface lacks this
> functionality.

Because the current implementation is simple, but stupid.

You're right, this should work. I think there's already an open
issue for this, but nobody found time to implement it.

Thomas

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