[Dovecot] Sendmail + deliver; silent errors.

[Daryl Tester]

Daryl Tester wrote:

>>> When sendmail attempts delivery, I'm getting "deferred: deliver
>>> failed with EX_TEMP", but nothing recorded in the log files.

Gnargh, found it.  After adding an freopen() to deliver to capture
stderr (because sendmail sure as heck wasn't), deliver was reporting
"stat(deliver) failed: No such file or directory".

> Mdovecot,   P=/opt/dovecot-1.2.9/libexec/dovecot/deliver, F=lADFMPhnu9,
>                 S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrFromL,
>                 T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
>                 A=deliver -d $u

Change the last line ("Argv") to

A=/opt/dovecot-1.2.9/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d $u

sets argv[0] to the full path of the binary so the permissions check in
deliver succeeds.  Which in hindsight explains why it worked with a
wrapper script or strace; they both would have set the full path
automatically.

I can't believe I've spent most of an afternoon on this.  <hangs head
in shame>


-- 
Regards,
  Daryl Tester

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