ISPConfig 2.2.6 released

[todvard]

do the procmail package installed properly? do you have formail utility on your PATH?

[Ben]

Originally Posted by todvard

do the procmail package installed properly? do you have formail utility on your PATH?

don't know if it installed properly how to I check that the best?

I will check the path thing

[todvard]

if you are using debian or ubuntu just reinstall it:

apt-get --reinstall install procmail

[Ben]

reinstall worked fine, formail is in the path I guess, which finds it without any problems.

[Hans]

@Todvart: apt-get --reinstall install procmail worked fine.

Originally Posted by till

It seems that the sender is not set with the complete domain name.

Whats in the file .autoresponder.rc in the home directory of an autoresponder that does not function properly?

The contents of autoresponder.rc.master:

SHELL=/bin/sh # for other shells, this might need adjustment
EMAIL=`formail -zxTo:`

:0 Whc: vacation.lock
# Perform a quick check to see if the mail was addressed to us
#* $^To:.*\<$\LOGNAME\>
# Don't reply to daemons and mailinglists
* !^FROM_DAEMON
# Mail loops are evil
* !^X-Loop: ${EMAIL}
| formail -rD 8192 {PFAD}/.vacation.cache

:0 ehc # if the name was not in the cache
| (formail -rI"From: {EMAIL_ADDRESS}" -I"Precedence: junk" \
-A"X-Loop: ${EMAIL}" ; \
cat {PFAD}/.vacation.msg \
) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t


My contents of the users .autoresponder.rc file which is within the users home dir:

SHELL=/bin/sh # for other shells, this might need adjustment
EMAIL=`formail -zxTo:`

:0 Whc: vacation.lock
# Perform a quick check to see if the mail was addressed to us
#* $^To:.*\<$\LOGNAME\>
# Don't reply to daemons and mailinglists
* !^FROM_DAEMON
# Mail loops are evil
* !^X-Loop: ${EMAIL}
| formail -rD 8192 /var/www/web5/user/test/.vacation.cache

:0 ehc # if the name was not in the cache
| (formail -rI"From: test@mydomain.tld" -I"Precedence: junk" \
-A"X-Loop: ${EMAIL}" ; \
cat /var/www/web5/user/test/.vacation.msg \
) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t


An .vacation.msg exits in the users home dir as well:
The contents of this file is the autorespondermessage as it should contain, so that's ok too.

An .vacation.cache exists in the users home dir too:
The contents of this file is:

sender@domain.tld^@^@


So the mentioned files above seems to be ok, it is a miracle to me that the autoresponder is not sent to emailaddresses outsite my server!

What can i do/check else to make it work?
I have to mention that the files .vacation.msg and .vacation.cache are hidden files. Is this ok?

[Hans]

I am still trying to get my autoresponder to work. and I discovered something very strange:

When i send an email with an emailaddress (at my server) to the mailbox with the autoresponder enabled (also on my server) the autoresponder works great!

When i send an email with hotmail to to the mailbox with the autoresponder enabled (on my server) the autoresponder works great too!

When i send an email with my private emailadress from my ADSL-provider at home, which is XS4ALL, the autoresponder does NOT function.
A message with a postfix error appears: No thank you rejected: need fully-qualified address (in reply to RCPT TO command)

When i send an email with another emailaddress at domain operamail.com the autoresponder does not function too, but the process behaves like there is no autoresponder enabled. With other words: The message arrives, but no autoresponder is send.

(I was thinking that my autoresponder did not function for external mailaddresses, for Hotmail it works!) For my other external emailaddresses it fails AND the behaviour is not the same!

I really do not understand anymore.

[Hans]

A few hours later now...
I did some tests again.

Now even with a hotmailaddress it does not work.
No delivery failures. Looks like the autoresponder is disabled, but it is not!

At least the autoresponder functioned once.

Can anyone help me out?

[jockstrap]

Hans - not sure if you know this - I didn't till TILL told me.

The auto responder only sends the reply once! per "from" email. Stores that email in the .vacation.cache file... so you will only ever get one autoresponder reply from any one email addy!

from V2.2.5 - the change was supposed to delete .vacation.cache when you turn off autoresponder and set it back when you turn it back on - that way clearing the cache so if you have a new message, the pervious email will now get it "only once" again...

Hope this makes sense...


If you want a reply every time an email is sent I think you can remove the "D" switch from the following line in the .autoresponder file

| formail -rD 8192 /var/www/web5/user/test/.vacation.cache

change to

| formail -r 8192 /var/www/web5/user/test/.vacation.cache

[Hans]

Ok, thank you very much!

That explains a little more. I check this out!

[jockstrap]

@ Falko and Till

I created a new virtual guest and installed V2.2.6 fresh and roundcubemail.
Seems autoresponder is working from sites such as hotmail, gmail, my work ,etc but not from my local lan email servers - this is where all my testing was done before and so why I was saying autoresponder is not working. I can not still understand why my mail server on another server (windows 2000) does not get the reply back - i can only think its becasue they are hosts on the same domain and some sort of netowrk confusion going on?????? anyway - any external mail gets responded to so i'm sort of happy now

Oh - and my roundcubemail is working sweet! I think it should be the default email client in your package - it's so much nicer than the others - lol