Is it possible to disable incoming mailbox delivery while keeping the Autoresponder active?

Hi there,
I trust you are well

I am wanting to create a "Mailbox" with an active "Autoresponder" and a "Send copy to" address, but disable incoming local delivery.

I have set the Autoresponder, and the Send copy to address already, and tried the following configurations:
- Set both "Enable receiving" and "Disable (local) delivering" to False, the auto responder does not trigger.
- Set both "Enable receiving" and "Disable (local) delivering" to True, the auto responder does not trigger.
- Set "Enable receiving" to False and "Disable (local) delivering" to True, the auto responder does not trigger.
- Set "Enable receiving" to True and "Disable (local) delivering" to False, the auto responder does trigger.

I don't want mails to be received however at this address, I only want an autoresponder.

Is this possible?

 

Yes but disabling local delivering does in fact lead to not working auto repsonse.
You can just create the mailbox and use a custom sieve rule to accomplish what you ask for.
Here is an example that matches your requirements:

Code:

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

# Only auto-reply to real people (skip lists/bulk)
if allof(
  not header :contains "Precedence" ["bulk","list","junk"],
  not exists "List-Id",
  not header :matches "Auto-Submitted" "*",
  not header :matches "From" "*mailer-daemon*@*"
) {
  # 1) Auto response
  vacation
    :days 7
    :subject "Out of office"
  "Hi,\n\nThanks for your message. I’m away and will reply when I’m back.\n\n—Me";

  # 2) Forward a copy
  redirect :copy "[email protected]";

  # 3A) Hard delete (no copy kept in your mailbox)
  discard;
  stop;
}

 

Thank you for this.

I will give it a go, but I also just realised that there is no point to having an autoresponder on a disabled mailbox if it is already forwarding to another mailbox.