auto create features

Fri Apr 7 17:42:18 EDT 2006

I am not sure, but I guess you have already created the user inbox 
before posting the email to the account. However, by design autocreate 
patch does not function this way.

In order the create on post feature of the autocreate patch be 
activated, no account at all must be pre-exist. If the mailbox has been 
already created, then the patch is not activated at all. This is 
probably the reason for not seeing any log messages.

Below I cite the conditions required in order the create on post 
functionality to be activated:

Create on post
==============
This feauture provides automatic creation of a user's INBOX folder when 
all of the
following requirements are met.

i) An e-mail message addressed to the user has been received.

ii) The recipient is not any of the imap_admins or admins accounts.
Note that passing e-mails to admins or imap_admins accounts from
the MTA to LMTP should be avoided in any case.

iii) The recipient's INBOX does not exist.

iv) The "autocreatequota" option in the imap configuration file
has been set to a non zero value.

v) The "createonpost" option in the imap configuration file
has been switched on.

The above text was taken from the patch's documentation at:
http://email.uoa.gr/projects/cyrus/autocreate/README.autocreate-cyrus-2.2

I hope this clears the situation out.

Cheers,
Christos

Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 13:19 +0300, Christos Soulios wrote:
>> When autocreate fails, it logs the error message to your syslog. (be sure
>> you do not filter out warnings). The patch for cyrus-2.3.x also logs debug
>> info to check if the patch was invoked. Unfortunately debug info are not
>> printed for cyrus 2.2.12.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christos
>>
>>
>> Craig White wrote:
>>> I am using Simon's rpm's on a CentOS 4 system...
>>>
>>> # rpm -q cyrus-imapd
>>> cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-16
>>>
>>> my /etc/imapd.conf includes...
>>>
>>> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
>>> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
>>> admins: cyrus
>>> sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
>>> sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
>>> hashimapspool: true
>>> lmtp_downcase_rcpt: 1
>>>
>>> createonpost: 1
>>> autocreateinboxfolders: Sent Items|SPAMBOX|VIRUSBOX|Drafts|Deleted Items
>>> autosubscribeinboxfolders: Sent Items|SPAMBOX|VIRUSBOX|Drafts|Deleted
>>> Items
>>> autosubscribesharedfolders: public|user.ratesheets
>>> autocreatequota: 512000
>>> autocreate_sieve_script: /var/lib/imap/autocreate/default_sieve_script
>>> autocreate_sieve_compiledscript:
>>> /var/lib/imap/autocreate/default_sieve_script.bc
>>> generate_compiled_sieve_script: 1
>>> allowallsubscribe: 1
>>> anysievefolder: 1
>>>
>>> and on other systems where I have done this, the auto features
>>> (autocreateinboxfolders, autosubscribeinboxfolders, etc.) all work. The
>>> features used to work here but seemed to have stopped working and I
>>> don't know why - which is why I upgraded last night.
>>>
>>> Is there a way I can 'trace' where things are breaking down on the
>>> 'autocreate' features when I create a new mailbox and send the first
>>> email to the new mailbox?
> ----
> that's just it...I'm not seeing log of significant info.
> 
> here is the maillog...
> 
> # account created...
> Apr  7 10:05:41 srv1 master[15542]: about to
> exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd
> Apr  7 10:05:41 srv1 imap[15542]: executed
> 
> # mail automatically generated...
> Apr  7 10:05:41 srv1 postfix/pickup[14853]: C530DF8DC0: uid=76
> from=<cyrus>
> Apr  7 10:05:41 srv1 postfix/cleanup[14961]: C530DF8DC0: hold: header
> Received: by srv1.myhomelenders.net (Postfix, from userid 76)??id
> C530DF8DC0; Fri,  7 Apr 2006 10:05:41 -0700 (MST) from local;
> from=<cyrus at myhomelenders.net> to=<test2 at myhomelenders.net>
> Apr  7 10:05:41 srv1 postfix/cleanup[14961]: C530DF8DC0:
> message-id=<20060407170541.C530DF8DC0 at srv1.myhomelenders.net>
> Apr  7 10:05:41 srv1 MailScanner[14598]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
> 842 bytes
> Apr  7 10:05:43 srv1 MailScanner[14598]: Virus and Content Scanning:
> Starting
> Apr  7 10:05:43 srv1 imap[15203]: accepted connection
> Apr  7 10:05:43 srv1 master[15560]: about to
> exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd
> Apr  7 10:05:43 srv1 master[15561]: about to
> exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd
> Apr  7 10:05:43 srv1 imap[15560]: executed
> Apr  7 10:05:43 srv1 imap[15561]: executed
> Apr  7 10:05:43 srv1 imap[15203]: login: localhost.localdomain
> [127.0.0.1] cyrus plaintext User logged in
> Apr  7 10:05:47 srv1 MailScanner[14598]: Requeue: C530DF8DC0.A2DE3 to
> 16CC0F8DB8
> Apr  7 10:05:47 srv1 MailScanner[14598]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
> messages
> Apr  7 10:05:47 srv1 postfix/qmgr[6603]: 16CC0F8DB8:
> from=<cyrus at myhomelenders.net>, size=848, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> 
> # autocreate_sieve_compiled_script should have been copied but didn't...
> Apr  7 10:05:47 srv1 lmtpunix[14976]: IOERROR: fstating sieve
> script /var/lib/imap/sieve/t/test2/defaultbc: No such file or directory
> Apr  7 10:05:47 srv1 lmtpunix[14976]: duplicate_check:
> <20060407170541.C530DF8DC0 at srv1.myhomelenders.net> user.test2
> 0
> Apr  7 10:05:47 srv1 lmtpunix[14976]: mystore: starting txn 2147486686
> Apr  7 10:05:47 srv1 lmtpunix[14976]: mystore: committing txn 2147486686
> Apr  7 10:05:47 srv1 lmtpunix[14976]: duplicate_mark:
> <20060407170541.C530DF8DC0 at srv1.myhomelenders.net> user.test2
> 1144429547 1
> Apr  7 10:05:47 srv1 postfix/lmtp[15054]: 16CC0F8DB8:
> to=<test2 at myhomelenders.net>, orig_to=<test2>,
> relay=/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp], delay=6,
> status=sent (250 2.1.5 Ok)
> Apr  7 10:05:47 srv1 postfix/qmgr[6603]: 16CC0F8DB8: removed
> 
> and to verify the existence of the autocreate_sieve files...
> # ls -l /var/lib/imap/autocreate/
> total 24
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 cyrus mail 4660 Mar 11  2005 default_sieve_script
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 cyrus mail 5536 Mar 11  2005 default_sieve_script.bc
> 
> 
> nor were the 'autocreateinboxfolders'
> # ls -l /var/spool/imap/t/user/test2/
> total 32
> -rw-------  1 cyrus mail 1079 Apr  7 10:05 1.
> -rw-------  1 cyrus mail  708 Apr  7 10:05 cyrus.cache
> -rw-------  1 cyrus mail  167 Apr  7 10:05 cyrus.header
> -rw-------  1 cyrus mail  136 Apr  7 10:05 cyrus.index
> 
> The wierd thing is that this setup worked when I set it up and for some
> months and then all of a sudden, it stopped working. So I ended up
> downloading latest SRPM from Simon and compiling it and installing it
> but that didn't change.
> 
> So I cannot figure out what isn't working when I don't see any errors.
> 
> Craig
> 