Filter module, quick autoreply

Virtualmin
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Hi,

My first post.

I use webmin with virtualmin to manage my small hosting server with 4 domains.
Everything works fine and webmin/virtualmin has saved me enormous time and effort. Thank you.

Is it possible to add an option to choose the period and start/stop dates for autoreplies entered from the quick automatic replies link? Are there some hidden default values for these when the filter is created from this form?

When used as a vacation reply, a period of 8 hours or so and an option to have a stop date would be greatly helpful. I know this can be handled by the full filter edit page but inexperienced users may fail to chain filters to make sure a copy of the email is left in their mailbox. The quick autoreply link is very useful in this regard.

Guess I can add input items for these as in the filter edit form by tweaking the module sources. I don’t mind doing that but some pointers on where to start would be helpful. I see the relevant files are probably edit_auto.cgi and and save_auto.cgi in /usr/share/webmin/filter but not sure whether these have to be copied elsewhere for the edits to be active.

Thanks,

Selva

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Any suggestions on how to go about adding start/stop dates to the quick autoreply form?

Thanks

Selva

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Howdy,

Using Usermin, there isn’t a way to set a start/stop date.

You can do that in Virtualmin though.

To do that in Virtualmin, go into Edit Users -> USERNAME -> Mail forwarding settings, and on there, you can setup both an autoreply, as well as a start/stop time. Be sure to click the “Automatic reply options” link to see the additional options.

-Eric

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Hi Eric,

Thanks for pointing me to the VM option to do this. It would be nice if users can do this themselves without requesting the VM admin. Usermin has support for this through the filter module but the full interface is too complex and the simple (quick) one has no start-stop dates.

What I have in mind is use as a vacation autoreply with start stop dates. Without start/stop users can forget to switch off the filter when they are back.

I suppose I have to edit the filter module sources.

Selva