What I'm trying to work around with this method is to handle user-specific .qmail directives. Dovecot doesn't do that, and that is why I can't full out replace vdelivermail with deliver.
As for pipes, I see where you're coming from, and it's probably best to not chain pipes, but instead exec the deliver process from within vdelivermail just as it would a user-specific .qmail directive. I was having problems with that, but you've just given me another avenue to try - vdelivermail will exec piped commands, so I may be able to re-use that code. Then your 'piped program failed' action should be no different than when maildrop or procmail is called from .qmail. The problem with the environments is that piping doesn't appear to be creating a child process of the previous command (within .qmail-default). fd1 (I think that's STDOUT) is a persistent file descriptor which each piped process can read, but qmail-local is the actual parent process of everything that runs from .qmail-default - vdelivermail is the parent of everything that runs from ~user/.qmail. I also discovered that I have an .inbox under my domain folder after testing dovecot deliver because $home was set to my domain, which qmail-local does. Unfortuantely it's tried and true :/ Rick On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 11:55 -0700, Tren Blackburn wrote: > I have a question about this. When I first implemented dSPAM I used the same > method of nested pipes to handle delivery through .qmail-default. However the > problem I ran into was if there was a problem in the first pipe that caused > an error mail was lost due to the broken pipe. Is that something that could > happen here? Is the pipe intelligent enough to see a failure and notify the > previous process? > > And with regards to the environment variables, if you export them in the > parent process shouldn't they be part of the environments of the child > processes? Another possibility is piping through maildrop. That's the > solution I ended up moving to for dSPAM since it was able to handle errors > properly through an exception and xfilter clause. Based on the error codes > dspamc sent I could re-queue or do other things. And to ensure that chkuser > still functioned properly for "bounce-no-mailbox" you just setup the > .qmail-default like this: > > | /usr/local/bin/maildrop /etc/maildroprc # bounce-no-mailbox > > Because chkuser only checks for the existence of "bounce-no-mailbox" in > .qmail-default. It doesn't care about vdelivermail so adding it as a comment > works perfectly. > > I'm not sure if this method would be worth doing in the case of dovecot, but > it helped me get around some of the same issues with dSPAM, and ensure that > mail was never lost. > > Regards, > > Tren > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rick Romero [mailto:r...@havokmon.com] > > Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 10:37 AM > > To: vchkpw@inter7.com > > Subject: Re: [vchkpw] vdelivermail stdout to Dovecot deliver > > > > > > Ok. This won't work. My test system had all the variables set in the > > shell, which is why it worked. :( The reason it won't work is that > > qmail-local is the parent process of both vdelivermail AND deliver. > > If vdelivermail sets HOME, it does not apply to deliver's environment. > > :( > > > > On the up side, with vdelivermail sending the mail to STDOUT, if you do > > > > |/usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermailstdout | > > /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d $...@$host > > > > It should deliver.. I'll try and test this tonite - on my test system > > I received an error 'email' in my INBOX when $EXT and $HOST didn't > > exist on my commandline. The caveat being you need to run the dovecot > > Auth on each machine that does delivery. :/ > > > > The other option would be for vdelivermail to call Dovecot's deliver > > after setting the environment. > > > > Programming question - if I write to fd0 (STDOUT), and then exec() a > > process, will that child process see the data I put in fd0 from the > > parent? Maybe I'll just try that as well. > > > > Rick > > > > Quoting "Rick Romero" <r...@havokmon.com>: > > > > > On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 14:19 -0500, Rick Romero wrote: > > >> I think it'll work just dandy if vdelivermail set's the HOME > > variable > > >> and writes the email to stdout. > > >> > > > > > >> I attached a patch, but I think testing this is going to be a pita > > >> unless someone has some sort of shell 'vdelivermail' tester ? > > > > > > :O Holy crap it worked. Not only did it compile without error, but > > it > > > actually worked as expected. > > > > > > The command: > > > > > > cat > > > > > /home/vpopmail/domains/havokmon.com/rick/Maildir/cur/1236799820.50282.m > > x.vfemail.net,S=3365:2,S | env -v EXT=rick HOST=havokmon.com > > HOME=/home/vpopmail/domains/havokmon.com/rick > > /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermailstdout '' > > > r...@havokmon.com > > > > > > Causes the ./vdelivermail (which is compiled to send to STDOUT) to > > > display the email in the terminal > > > > > > If I run: > > > > > > cat > > > > > /home/vpopmail/domains/havokmon.com/rick/Maildir/cur/1236799820.50282.m > > x.vfemail.net,S=3365:2,S | env -v EXT=rick HOST=havokmon.com > > HOME=/home/vpopmail/domains/havokmon.com/rick > > /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' > > > r...@havokmon.com > > > > > > The email will be delivered to my mailbox. So I've got a decent test > > > environment. > > > > > > Now appending deliver to that first command line: > > > > > > cat > > > > > /home/vpopmail/domains/havokmon.com/rick/Maildir/cur/1236751658.43485.m > > x.vfemail.net,S=3436:2,S | env EXT=rick HOST=havokmon.com > > HOME=/home/vpopmail/domains/havokmon.com/rick > > /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermailstdout '' r...@havokmon.com | > > > /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver > > > > > > And it worked too! Wow. I'm blown away. I need a glass of > > champagne. > > > Not that I didn't think it would work, but that it worked 'pefectly' > > > without throwing an error on the first try. :) I think it took me > > > longer to figure out how to test it in a shell. > > > > > > The only problem I see is the new message starts with a (null). > > > (null)Delivered-To: r...@havokmon.com > > > > > > Now the null occurs whether I use deliver, the original vdelivermail, > > or > > > the new vdelivermailstdout, so I think its part of the cat. I'll > > work > > > on it a little more tomorrow, so I can go to bed happy tonite :) > > > > > > Rick > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > !DSPAM:49d1812f32681701259931!
