Unauthorized Access to out of office assistant

Out of Office Assistant is a solution for Postfix. It’s a milter which extends mail server functionality with client side auto replies, aka out of office. It gives users the option to turn on or off auto reply, define a reply message and set a time range when the out of office reply will be sent.

Administrator Panel is a central management application for server settings and users’ out-of-office states; thanks to it, an administrator can remotely change users’ OOF state.

Access to server only for specified users

After installing the Milter on the mail server, everyone can connect to it with the Administrator Panel. Anonymous connection is enabled. This needs to be changed.

On Access Control page in Administrative Tools node option Enable Access Control option need to be selected.

When selected administrator should define users which could have access to server settings. In this example admin and lucas users were created. After saving settings, access to application will be blocked against unauthorized access.

Mozilla Thunderbird integration

To give users the option for setting their Out of Office state, an add-on for Mozilla Thunderbird is provided. It will seamlessly integrate with email client and will provide everything what is needed to set up vacation auto reply.

To learn more visit MSH Postfix Autoresponder website.