Vacation message

[smay]

Newbie question: how can the owner of a mailbox login to set their own vacation message?

Thanks.

 

[nobaloney]

They can't. It's a site admin thing.

Jeff

 

[smay]

Oh dear, shame

Yes, that's what I was afraid of. Unfortunately it's a severe limitation for our application. In many other respects I prefer DA, but Plesk does support this feature.

Has anyone written an add-in to offer this 4th level of login?

 

[nobaloney]

It may be doable, but I doubt it's easy... because to change the vacation message it's required that you're logged in as the main domain user. Which would mean you'd have to write something that would find the domain, find the user, and then the password, and then login as that user to change the message.

Or write something to run as root and make the changes manually, ignoring the Control Panel completely.

Both are potentially insecure; the latter quite a bit more than the former.

Jeff

 

[drenalin]

The DirectAdmin folks say -

A feature does exists that allows for that:
http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=684
However it's only an API and doesn't give an interface.
A simple php script would be all that's needed.

I also found this thread -

http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13112&highlight=vacation

but have not been able to get the php script there working yet.