Ldap autoreply text MTA option

Direct LDAP attribute name MTA options:  (LDAP attribute name)
The  MTA option specifies the name of the user (or group) LDAP attribute which will store the vacation/autoreply text (the "reason" string) returned to all senders except users in the  recipient&#x27;s own domain. The default LDAP attribute for this purpose is. (The MTA in principle allows this attribute on group/mailing list entries as well as on user entries,  but the typical configuration of the   MTA option disables this support in the case of groups.  Futhermore, the Sun schema does not, as distributed, allow this attribute on group/mailing list entries. See the   MTA option for some discussion regarding enabling use of this attribute on group/mailing list entries.) If the recipient&#x27;s LDAP entry does not have a value specified for the attribute named by   (normally the   attribute), then note that "external" senders will receive no vacation message. Note that when generating an autoreply/vacation message back to a fellow "internal" user, the value of the attribute named by the  MTA option will be used instead of the value of the attribute named by the   MTA option.

The schema sets an ACI on the default attribute,  , to allow user modification.

As of MS 6.2-2.01, the special strings   and   are supported for use in this attribute&#x27;s value, causing substitution of the original message&#x27;s Subject: field value or From: field value, respectively, into the generated body text string.

New in MS 8.0.2.2, substitutions from the vacationStartDate and vacationEndDate are also also available. These substitutions take the form  where   is "B" for the start (beginning) date or "E" for the end date, and   is one of the date parts defined in RFC 5260 section 4.2. So for example, the string  would substitute in the end date in YYYY-MM-DD format. These substitution strings are treated as regular text if the corresponding attribute is not defined or is set to an invalid value.

Note that new in MS 6.3-0.15,  the MTA supports the use of multiple, language-tagged values, for this attribute;. When multiple, language-tagged values are present, the MTA will preferentially use the value tagged as being in the language preference expressed in a header line such as Accept-Language:, or in the absence of such header lines the MTA&#x27;s next choice will be the value tagged as being in the language of the envelope From user&#x27;s   (normally  ) attribute&#x27;s value.)

See also:
 * delivery_options MTA Option
 * Direct LDAP attribute name MTA options
 * ldap_autoreply_text_internal MTA Option
 * ldap_preferred_language MTA Option
 * Why a vacation message was not generated
 * Access controls on LDAP attributes