How do I make a noreply email?

[Batimius]

Hello there. Just like the title says, I'd like to make a [email protected] email that does not store replies and sends back an automated message. Unfortunately, I have very little experience with this. I tried asking ChatGPT out of curiosity and followed its steps, but it didn't work (add the ENABLE_SIEVE=1 environmental variable, make an autoresponder.sieve file under the /var/mail/domain.tld/noreply/sieve/ directory, add some text there, and then run sievec PATH/TO/autoresponder.sieve).

If anyone has any idea how or can point to resources talking about it, please let me know. Also, I do want to create aliases for all my services that send outgoing emails without receiving any, so if I need to do that for those as well, do let me know. Thank you for your time and help, it is truly appreciated.

[Batimius]

I did a little more digging in the documentation and I found a page talking about Email Filtering with Sieve. From there, I just needed to add my Sieve autoresponder configuration and it worked.

To sum up, you just need to create a .dovecot.sieve file under the /var/mail/domain.tld/YOUR USER/home/ directory and have the following text inside it:

require ["fileinto", "reject", "vacation"];

vacation
  :days 1
  :subject "Re: This is an unmonitored mailbox"
  :addresses ["[email protected]"]
  "Thank you for your email.

This is an unmonitored mailbox, and we do not receive or respond to messages sent here.

If you have a question or need assistance, please visit our website or contact our support team.

Sincerely,

The Team";

discard;

No need to restart after, it will automatically pick up the script and send an automated reply.

[audioscavenger]

this should be another page under docs/examples