On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 05:47:42PM -0700, Christian G. Warden wrote:
> I'm running dbmail on debian with exim. I'm using the
> dbmail-mysql_1.1.20030529-2 from http://debian.nfgd.net. Mail to
> existing aliases works correctly, but mail to non-existent aliases
> creates bounces that don't seem to make it into exim.
> dbmail seems to generate a bounce, but it never shows up in exim.
Sorry to respond to my own message, but I tracked down the problem. I
set the value of SENDMAIL to "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t", so popen() was
passing that entire to string to the shell as the process to run.
Changing it to SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail -t fixed the problem.
Attached is a patch to detect such an error.
> I'm not sure it makes sense for dbmail to be generating the bounces
> anyway. It seems like a better idea to have dbmail to return EX_NOUSER and
> let the MTA generate the bounce.
This, obviously, only makes sense if you pass a single recipient to
dbmail-smtp.
xn
--- bounce.c.orig Thu Mar 20 07:08:03 2003
+++ bounce.c Sun Jun 15 18:59:59 2003
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include "db.h"
#include "debug.h"
#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>
extern struct list mimelist;
@@ -79,6 +80,9 @@
(FILE *)sendmail_stream=popen (sendmail,"w");
+ trace (TRACE_MESSAGE,"bounce(): sending 'no such user' to [%s]",
+ (char *)tmpelement->data);
+
if (sendmail_stream==NULL)
{
/* could not open a succesfull stream */
@@ -100,7 +104,10 @@
fprintf ((FILE *)sendmail_stream,"%s",header);
fprintf ((FILE *)sendmail_stream,"--- end of header ---\n\n\n");
fprintf ((FILE *)sendmail_stream,"\n.\n");
- pclose ((FILE *)sendmail_stream);
+ if (pclose ((FILE *)sendmail_stream) != 0)
+ {
+ trace(TRACE_ERROR, "Failed to execute %s [%s]", sendmail,
strerror(errno));
+ }
/* jump forward to next recipient */
tmpelement=tmpelement->nextnode;
@@ -161,7 +168,10 @@
fprintf ((FILE *)sendmail_stream,"%s",header);
fprintf ((FILE *)sendmail_stream,"--- end of header ---\n\n\n");
fprintf ((FILE *)sendmail_stream,"\n.\n");
- pclose ((FILE *)sendmail_stream);
+ if (pclose ((FILE *)sendmail_stream) != 0)
+ {
+ trace(TRACE_ERROR, "Failed to execute %s [%s]", sendmail,
strerror(errno));
+ }
/* jump forward to next recipient */
tmpelement=tmpelement->nextnode;
