Re: [webmin-l] Usermin automatic reply not working

The best solution here is to configure Usermin with the correct domain name
for sending email. You can do this by adding the line :

server_name=mailsrv.myoffice.org

to /etc/usermin/mailbox/config

On 14/Jul/2022 08:30 Gilles Celli <[email protected]> wrote ..
> Update 3: OK it seems to work but I have to login to Usermin at https://mailsrv.myoffice.org:20000
> instead (of preferred internal/local https://mailsrv.office.local:20000)
> then the automatic reply works and the file $HOME/autoreply.0.txt contains the
> correct "From:" with email address:
> From: "gilles" <[email protected]>
> 
> But login in to the internal (192.168.x.0/24 zone) with https://mailsrv.office.local:20000,
> the file $HOME/autoreply.0.txt contains the wrong "From:" address (which bounces
> then back and email is never delivered)
> From: "gilles" <[email protected]>
> 
> Also trying to set Webmin > Usermin Configuration > Ports and Addresses > Web server
> hostname: "mailsrv.myoffice.org" (instead of "Work out from browser")
> gives an error:
> "Failed to change address : An error occurring starting Usermin with the new address
> and port settings"
> 
> So it would be nice to set the Web Server hostname in /etc/usermin/miniserv.conf
> ... 
> Is this possible ?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > On 14 Jul 2022, at 16:48, Gilles Celli <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Update 2: Automatic Reply is still not working after setting Webmin > Usermin
> Configuration > Ports and Addresses > Web server hostname: "mailsrv.myoffice.org"
> > and in /etc/usermin/miniserv.conf
> > host=mailsrv.myoffice.org
> > 
> > Even logout and restarting Webmin & Usermin it will still write the correct hostname
> but wrong domainname into file "$HOME/autoreply.0.txt".
> > 
> > Since our Email-Server "mailsrv" has 2 separate Ethernet cards:
> > - one NIC for internal network: 192.168.x.0/24 (office.local) and
> > - one NIC for public network (myoffice.org)
> > 
> > the autoreply.0.txt has always the wrong internal network DNS name -> (office.local
> intead of myoffice.org)
> > 
> > So $HOME/autoreply.0.txt should read with TLD (here: mailsrv.myoffice.org)
> > 
> > From: "gilles" <[email protected]>
> > 
> > instead of wrong (internal domain mailsrv.office.localname for internal network
> 192.168.x.0/24):
> > 
> > From: "gilles" <[email protected]>
> > 
> > So the script which generates the "$HOME/autoreply.0.txt" file, extracts and
> writes the wrong domainname (office.local...) ?!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> On 14 Jul 2022, at 14:39, Gilles Celli <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Well I think I found something...I added procmail to /etc/postfix/main.cf as
> "mailbox_command" 
> >> mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -a "$EXTENSION" DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir
> >> 
> >> After that it worked: the Auto Reply in Usermin creates the file "autoreply.0.txt"
> in $HOME,
> >> but inside this file the domainname of the host is not the TLD domain name,
> but instead "office.local"
> >> 
> >> From: "gilles" <[email protected]>
> >> 
> >> it should read:
> >> 
> >> From: "gilles" <[email protected]>
> >> or
> >> From: "gilles" <[email protected]>
> >> 
> >> With <mailsrv.office.local> it bounces back and gets queued...
> >> 
> >> Can someone give me a clue which script to edit that generates the hostname
> with TLD for file "autoreply.0.txt" ?
> >> I've edited the variable: $host (line 105) in /etc/usermin/forward/autoreply.pl
> but that doesn't seem to work...
> >> 
> >> Any clues ?
> >> 
> >> thanks
> >> 
> >> gilles
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> On 14 Jul 2022, at 10:56, Gilles Celli <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Automatic reply for Usermin v1.840 doesn't seem to work on our OpenSUSE Leap
> 15.3 Email-Server...
> >>> 
> >>> Quick question: is "procmail" required along with postfix to have automatic
> replies ?
> >>> 
> >>> I've tried / checked a few things:
> >>> When I create a new "Automatic Reply" it creates the ".forward" file in my
> $HOME directoy with content:
> >>> |/usr/bin/procmail
> >>> 
> >>> If the .forward file is present => no reply, and no email is received.
> >>> 
> >>> Also I checked in "Webmin" > Usermin Configuration > "Usermin module configuration"
> > "Configurable options for Mail Forwarding and Replies"
> >>> and "Allowed Forwarding types" everything is selected  (Autoreply etc.) and
> "Mail system installed" is set to "Sendmail".
> >>> 
> >>> I suspect something is missing, but I don't want to mess up my Dovecot / Postfix
> (with LMTP) setup, so I'm not sure if "procmail" required for Autoreply ?
> >>> 
> >>> cheers
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
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