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

Sending emails when Auto Reply is enabled works now: the emails are correctly delivered to destination.

Made some tests and it was fixed by adding the mailserver to "/etc/usermin/mailbox/config" with the line:
server_name=mailsrv.myoffice.org (of course I added our mail server's hostname ;-)

Well when enabling Auto Reply the following 2 files are created:

- the .forward file with the line:
	|/usr/bin/procmail
- the .procmailrc file with the following content:
	:0c
	| /etc/usermin/forward/autoreply.pl /home/gilles/autoreply.0.txt gilles






>>>>> server_name=mailsrv.myoffice.org

since I added  but the .forward file is always created with 

> On 20 Jul 2022, at 22:44, Jamie Cameron <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Come to think of it, that shouldn't even be needed if you're using
> Postfix as your mail server, as it delivers directly to the procmail command.
> 
> Does anything useful get logged to /var/log/maillog ?
> 
> On 18/Jul/2022 00:26 Gilles Celli <[email protected]> wrote ..
>> Ah sorry! .forward contains of course /usr/bin/procmail
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 16 Jul 2022, at 23:30, Jamie Cameron <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Wait does .forward contain /usr/bin/procline or /usr/bin/procmail ?
>>> 
>>> On 16/Jul/2022 07:15 Gilles CELLI <[email protected]> wrote ..
>>>> Ah thank you very much ! Will try it ASAP!
>>>> Also when automatic reply is enabled, sending a new email won't work...
>>>> The new email is not distributed since .forward contains only the line:
>>>> |/usr/bin/procline
>>>> 
>>>> Is this normal (not sending email...) or do I need to modify something for postfix
>>>> ?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Le 16 juil. 2022 à 07:14, Jamie Cameron <[email protected]> a écrit :
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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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