Scheduled Expiry of Auto-reply doesnt clear the 'already replied' cache

[jimimaseye]

SUMMARY: The 'already replied' cache doesn't get cleared when the autoreply is disabled by expiry - it only gets cleared if the service is stopped/restated or the Autoreply is MANUALLY disabled.

Enable Autoreply/Out Of Office ("OOO") on an account.

As expected, the first email sent by USERA will receive an OOO. Subsequent emails from him doesnt receive OOO. If the service is restarted, or the Autoreply is manually disabled and the re-enabled, the 'already replied' cache is cleared and the next email in by USERA will receive an OOO again. All as expected.

HOWEVER, if the initial Autoreply that is set against the account is set with a scheduled EXPIRY, the 'already replied' cache doesnt get cleared after it expires. Subsequent Auto-replies set against the account fail to send out the OOO if one has already been sent to USERA in previous auto-reply periods.

(People may not restart the service from one month to the next and it is quite feasible for someone to set an Autoreply for February and another later in August and yet if a sender sends in an email in August they will never know that their recipient is on holiday because of some previous OOO sent 6 months before on their previous vacation.)

https://www.hmailserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=206105#p206105