Away message (out-of-office auto-reply)

Hi everybody,

I'm currently running ZCS 4 and I didn't find any information about a feature that is running on several other collaboration servers like Lotus Domino (even if on Domino this feature isn't so complete) :

when a user activate the away message (or out-of-office auto-reply), it would be great to add (optionnally) the start times/dates and stop times/dates between which this message is enabled.

More, it would be really useful to add an "out of office" event in the calendar during the dates set, or from the time the message was enable to the current time.

Other users then can be able to see unavailabilities from their planning when they create new appointments ...

Do I need to create a new request in the bugzilla DB ?

I'm fairly postive that there is already a enhancement request for this. If there is, please feel free to vote for it.

There is a feature request here Bug 10071.

Hello everyone :-)

I have a small problem, and I hope you can help me (I hope I'm in the right thread).;)

Our office is giving us away holiday days for everyone for the Xmas-New Year week (Dec 26 - Jan 2), so we'll be closed during that week. :cool:

Is there any way to set a kinda "corporate" out-of-office message for all the users in the domain, for the aforemetioned week, without editing each account's away-message? :confused:

Thanks in advance, kindest regards
KMinamoto

Hi,

Yes you can.

script via zmprov using

zimbraPrefOutOfOfficeReply: Message you want
zimbraPrefOutOfOfficeReplyEnabled: TRUE

Based on Setting automatic Default Signature - Zimbra :: Wiki to get all accounts.

Code:

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#!/bin/bash
 
  RUTA="/opt/zimbra/bin"
 
  # Check for run as zimbra user
  ID=`id -u -n`
  if [ x$ID != "xzimbra" ]; then
    echo "Please run as ZIMBRA user"
    echo "Exiting..."
    exit 1
  fi
 
  # Obtain all accounts
  accounts=`$RUTA/zmprov gaa`
  for ac in $accounts; do
    echo -ne "Checking account: $ac \t"
 
    echo -ne "Setting Out of Office message"
 
    # Set Out of Office Message for account $ca
    $RUTA/zmprov ma $ac zimbraPrefOutOfOfficeReplyEnabled TRUE zimbraPrefOutOfOfficeReply "Message you want"
 
  done

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Be aware of exclude "system" accounts like admin, spam, ham, etc. This script doesn't.

Regards.

how can you exclude system accounts?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Sam159

how can you exclude system accounts?

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I did it by 'grep'ing each account name and placing an if statement whether the account is spam, ham, admin or galsync.
Maybe it's not the cleanest way, but it worked ;)
Thanks.
KM