On 20/05/13 16:12, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
I am trying to configure my Dovecot installation to provide
Vacation/Out-of-the-office emails using the Sieve plugin. My setup is a
little bit peculiar:
Internet Internet
| ^
V |
Provider's POP3 server Provider's SMTP server
| ^
V | --------------
getmail | my server
| |
V |
Dovecot LDA ---> Sieve/vacation -----> Exim
|
V
Dovecot my server
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Sorry for the ASCII art above - I thought it would be quicker than
trying to explain.
The trouble I'm having is getting the Dovecot LDA to send successfully
through the local exim instance out-of-office replies back to the
provider's smtp server - when receiving fresh email from the provider
(through getmail). Dovecot LDA tries to send the replies - but Exim
freezes them because they don't contain the sender data in the format
Exim wants it. Exim can either receive sender info:
1. On the command line, after the "-f" command line switch (but only
when called by root or other users passed under "trusted_users" in
exim.conf).
2. In the header of the email - in the "From:" field - but only,
apparently, if it was called with the "-t" switch. Full exim command
line documentation here:
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-the_exim_command_line.html
I can't figure out what command line options the Dovecot LDA is using
when calling exim. I also couldn't find a way to get Dovecot LDA to pass
extra options to exim, when trying to send email. The exim log has the
following:
2013-05-20 15:35:15 1UeRBB-0001xc-Ar Frozen (message created with -f <>)
I've inspected the frozen message - and it has the correct sender in the
"From:" field - but it seems that exim isn't using that, because it
wasn't called with the "-t" option.
In dovecot.conf, I have the following for Dovecot LDA and sieve:
protocols = imap sieve
protocol lda {
log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-deliver.log
info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-deliver-info.log
postmaster_address = ad...@mydomain.co.uk
hostname = mydomain.co.uk
mail_plugins = sieve
mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/exim
}
service managesieve-login {
inet_listener sieve {
port = 4190
}
}
plugin {
sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
sieve_dir = ~/sieve
}
Dovecot LDA is called by getmail using the vmail user - and using the
same user it is trying to call exim to deliver the out-of-office replies.
I'm using Dovecot 2.2.1 with pigeonhole 0.4.0.
I can post the rest of dovecot.conf if it would help. I've read through
the stuff at dovecot.org - but all the Dovecot LDA and exim info refers
to Exim passing email to Dovecot using Dovecot LDA - not Dovecot LDA
sending email out using Exim.
I have done a bit more testing, and it seems Dovecot LDA uses the
following command options when sending out email through Exim:
exim -i -f <> -- recipi...@address.com
The problem with the above is that it sets an empty address for the
"Sender" field in the message envelope. The message "From" header is set
correctly - but the envelope "Sender" field is empty. As I use exim in
smart relay mode, exim can only use the "Sender" field from the envelope
to authenticate against the provider's SMTP server (Exim doesn't seem to
have any variable expansion for the "From" field in the header to be
used during SMTP authentication) - thus the authentication fails and the
message can't go away.
