On Jan 25, 2008 9:22 AM, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

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Postfix people suggested placing a wrapper script for mailbox_command, which I did, and have it log to a text file, so I do know that deliver is being called.

To get you right here: the wrapper is being called by Postfix, right?

Yes, postfix calls a wrapper. The wrapper is a shell script that calls deliver. This is the wrapper. $LOGNAME comes from postfix, it's a built in variable it populates as the local username:

#!/bin/sh DELIVER=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver DATE=date echo "==" >> /tmp/foo.txt echo $DATE >> /tmp/foo.txt echo $USER >> /tmp/foo.txt $DELIVER -d "$LOGNAME" echo $DATE >> /tmp/foo.txt

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             However, although I have LDA debug logging on, and it

DID log prior to this, when postfix supposedly calls deliver, dovecot does NOT log anything.

...and LDA (called from the wrapper) doesn't run (or doesn't run to the point of logging anything).

Well, it's hard for me to tell. I know for sure that the wrapper ran, as I get my temp log does get the tiemstamp that's before/after deliver. However, I guess I dont know the best way to log the output/exit status of the deliver command.

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                    It DOES however log if I call deliver from any

account (root or not) from the command line (ls / | /path/to/deliver -d localaccountname). Any way I can debug this further? I would assume that deliver would log something even if it's called, but it appears that it does not.

That's rather bizarre. I would up the verbosity of the wrapper (f.ex. putting a couple of line 'which /path/to/deliver' or 'ldd /path/to/deliver'

• -- or even 'strace /path/to/deliver'). Something in the environment must be different to the command lines, right?

Hmm, perhaps I should somehow log the entire status of SETENV or something. What I probably really need to do is figure out the appropriate pipes after the deliver line to find out if it's spitting anything back to stderr or something. This is usually.. >> 2&1 or something similar? Anyone have suggestions for that?

--falz

On Jan 25, 2008 11:44 AM, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

I'd typically do

#!/bin/sh { DELIVER=... echo "==" echo $DATE ... } >> /tmp/foo.txt 2>&1

Thanks, I wasn't aware of the curly bracket trick. STRACE found the problem for me! It was something completely unexpected. Patsing my script here for future reference for anyone:

#!/bin/sh { DELIVER=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver STRACE=/usr/local/bin/strace DATE=date echo "==" /usr/bin/env echo $DATE echo $LOGNAME $STRACE $DELIVER -d "$LOGNAME" echo $DATE } >> /tmp/foo.txt 2>&1

So, doing this, near the end of the STRACE gave me:

open("/var/log/dovecot-lda.log", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT, 0666) = 6 lseek(6, 0, SEEK_END) = 51237618 fcntl(6, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl(6, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 open("/var/log/dovecot-lda.log", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT, 0666) = 7 lseek(7, 0, SEEK_END) = 51237618 fcntl(7, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl(7, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fstat(7, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 gettimeofday({0, 0}, NULL) = 0 access("/etc/localtime", R_OK) = 0 open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 8 fstat(8, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|S_ISUID|S_ISGID|S_ISVTX|045, st_rdev=makedev(37, 842006560), ...}) = 0 read(8, "\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377"..., 7944) = 1279 close(8) = 0 write(7, "deliver(username): Jan 25 12:58:"..., 100) = -1 EFBIG (File too large) --- SIGXFSZ (Filesize limit exceeded: 25) --- --- SIGXFSZ (Filesize limit exceeded: 25) --- syscall_417(0xbfbfe820) = -1 (errno 27) exit(75) = ?

So, the issue was that SOMETHING is enforcing /var/log/dovecot-lda/log size! I was able to get this working by rotating, and the solution will be to constantly rotate, but I still need to figure out what's enforcing this.

• I have no filesystem quotas enabled (FreeBSD) and never have.

• I could not find any 'max file size' type of settings in dovecot. Even if there were, I don't know why this would be the default behavior!

So, anyone have thoughts as to what's enforcing the "Filesize limit exceeded: 25"?

--falz

On Jan 25, 2008 11:44 PM, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

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So, the issue was that SOMETHING is enforcing /var/log/dovecot-lda/log size! I was able to get this working by rotating, and the solution will be to constantly rotate, but I still need to figure out what's enforcing this.

Check ulimit (in the shell, say ulimit -a). Maybe some script is over-cautious and is setting user limits.

This seems fine (on FreeBSD it's "limits"):

# limits Resource limits (current): cputime infinity secs filesize infinity kB datasize 524288 kB stacksize 65536 kB coredumpsize infinity kB memoryuse infinity kB memorylocked infinity kB maxprocesses 5547 openfiles 11095 sbsize infinity bytes vmemoryuse infinity kB

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write(7, "deliver(username): Jan 25 12:58:"..., 100) = -1 EFBIG (File too large) .. So, anyone have thoughts as to what's enforcing the "Filesize limit exceeded: 25"?

Postfix's mailbox_size_limit setting most likely.

Postfix does have this set to 50MB:

mailbox_size_limit = 51200000

..which is how large the LDA log was. Very odd, because the issue was writing the LOG, not writing to the mailbox. So, mailbox_size_limit must restrict the size of whatever is forked off of mailbox_command if I'm understanding it correctly. I'll ask further about that on the potsfix mailing list, but it sounds to me like that's it. Thanks much for your help!

--falz