Problems using an autoresponder with pipe

[Alexandros Fragkiadakis]

Hi,

I'm trying to set up a mechanism for vacation messages, through postfix's
pipe. I've added in master.cf the following line:

#-----------------------------------
vacation unix - n n - - pipe
flags=Rhu user=vacation argv=/var/spool/vacation/vacation.pl
#-----------------------------------
vacation.pl is the script the does the autoresponding and vacation is a
user in linux.

my transport file is:
#-------------------------
vacation.mydomain vacation:
#-------------------------

another file i use is called vacation_alias:
#-------------------------
test@mydomain test@mydomain,te...@vacation.mydomain

#-------------------------

in main.cf:

#-----------------
transport_maps=hash:/etc/postfix/transport

virtual_alias_maps= hash:/etc/postfix/vacation_alias
#------------------

When i send emails to test@mydomain i got the following errors:

fatal: user= command-line attribute specifies mail system owner postfix
group id 100

warning: premature end-of-input on private/vacation socket while reading
input attribute name
Jun 5 13:31:33 hermes postfix/qmgr[963]: warning: private/vacation
socket: malformed response
Jun 5 13:31:33 hermes postfix/qmgr[963]: warning: transport vacation
failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the
problem description
Jun 5 13:31:33 hermes postfix/master[30619]: warning: process
/usr/libexec/postfix/pipe pid 1298 exit status 1
Jun 5 13:31:33 hermes postfix/master[30619]: warning:
/usr/libexec/postfix/pipe: bad command startup -- throttling
Jun 5 13:31:33 hermes postfix/qmgr[963]: 878252C076:
to=<te...@vacation.mydomain>, orig_to=<test@mydomain>, relay=none,
delay=2.6, delays=1.5/1.1/0/0, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (unknown mail
transport error)

What can be wrong?

Many thanks in advance!

Regards,

Alexandros

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[mouss]

Alexandros Fragkiadakis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set up a mechanism for vacation messages, through postfix's
> pipe. I've added in master.cf the following line:
>
> #-----------------------------------
> vacation unix - n n - - pipe
> flags=Rhu user=vacation argv=/var/spool/vacation/vacation.pl
>

how do you get the recipient address?

> [snip]
>
>
> What can be wrong?
>

show your perl script.

[Alexandros Fragkiadakis]

Recipients' addresses are stored in LDAP server. When i send mail to
test@mydomain, email is correctly placed in test's mailbox. But, the
problem it when the script tries to send the autoresponse. I'm using the
vacation script contained in postfixadmin package.

[mouss]

Alexandros Fragkiadakis wrote:
> On Tue, June 5, 2007 2:33 pm, mouss wrote:
>
>> Alexandros Fragkiadakis wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm trying to set up a mechanism for vacation messages, through
>>> postfix's pipe. I've added in master.cf the following line:
>>>
>>> #-----------------------------------
>>> vacation unix - n n - - pipe flags=Rhu
>>> user=vacation argv=/var/spool/vacation/vacation.pl
>>>
>>>
>> how do you get the recipient address?
>>
>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What can be wrong?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> show your perl script.
>>
>>
>
> Recipients' addresses are stored in LDAP server. When i send mail to
> test@mydomain, email is correctly placed in test's mailbox.

you did not understand my question: how does your script know the
recipient (the mailbox it is run for)? you are providing no arguments to
this script, nor setting the 'D' flag to have a Delivered-To header.

If you are getting the recipient from the To or CC header, then you're
just adding another broken responder.

> But, the
> problem it when the script tries to send the autoresponse. I'm using the
> vacation script contained in postfixadmin package.
>

I never used it.
see if you can use the "old" vacation program.

[Alexandros Fragkiadakis]

On Tue, June 5, 2007 5:51 pm, Gary V wrote:

>> Alexandros Fragkiadakis wrote:
>>
>
>>> But, the
>>> problem it when the script tries to send the autoresponse. I'm using
>>> the vacation script contained in postfixadmin package.
>>>
>

> This may get you one step closer (I think I found this somewhere at
> http://high5.net/forum/ ):
>
>
> vacation unix - n n - - pipe flags=Rq
> user=vacation argv=/var/spool/vacation/vacation.pl -f ${sender} --
> ${recipient}
>
>
> BTW, make sure you use version 3.2 from svn.
>
>
> Gary V
>
>
The problem was that, the owner of the vacation script was in the same
group with postfix. I removed the user account into a different group and
it works now. :)