Cyrus + Sieve

[Simon Matter]

> Good thinking. I sent a email from a completely new address, and it still
> didn't work.
>
> I wonder if this has something to do with how Sendmail and Cyrus talk to
> each other. This production environment was not setup by me, and there is
> a actual .promailrc script that hands off from sendmail to Cyrus. I wonder
> if this is causing mail to get malformed, and sieve not handle it.

What I meant is whether cyrus can send mails back via sendmail. That's how
vacation messages are sent, cyrus call the "sendmail" program and sends
the vacation message. If the sendmail parameter is not configured
correctly then that won't work.

Simon

>
> I saw some other posts online with users talking about this very issue.
>
> I'm not sure how that would affect the vacation portion, but maybe it
> could be?
>
> David Gottschalk
> UTS Email team
> david.gottschalk at emory.edu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Matter [mailto:simon.matter at invoca.ch]
> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 3:54 PM
> To: Gottschalk, David
> Cc: Blake Hudson; info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: RE: Cyrus + Sieve
>
>> Well, I think duplicate surpression might be already working. I just
>> looked at my logs and see entries for it.
>>
>> I don’t have a deliver.db though, which is interesting. I did
>> look at
>> the Cyrus change log, and noticed that at some point they did merge the
>> deliver.db and the duplicate.db.
>
> Hm, IIRC the duplicate db is always stored in deliver.db.
>
>>
>> Any other ideas I could try, or tests I could do?
>
> The thread is already quite long and I don't remember all details. But
> the
> problem you report is very common. Everything works but vacation does
> not.
> It usually boils down to the fact that everything is okay but the tester
> thinks it doesn't because he expects a message but cyrus thinks it has
> already sent one message.
> One thing you might check is your "sendmail" option in imapd.conf. Does
> it
> point to a usable sendmail command which really does the right thing?
>
> Simon
>
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