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From: Oliver Sommer (no email)
Date: Thu Mar 03 2005 - 13:16:24 EST
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> Oliver,
>
Henk, thank you that you give me an answer!
Unfortunately I am still at the same point where the problems started.
Also, I did an update last week (I forgot to mention), from 2.2.3 to
2.2.12, just to see if that fixes the problem, but it didn't.
(kept my text for completeness)
>>every now and then a user who is sending a mail to that specific account
>>gets his old vacation message. Many times we tried to get rid of it. I
>>scanned all the folders in the /var/sieve directory. we installed a new
>>vacation note and removed them - like everything you can do except for
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> Install a new vacation and see what exactly changes on the cyrus box.
> Check 'sievedir' in imapd.conf and check for a 'default' softlink to
> a script in that location ($sievedir/f/foo/my.script).
We did this already. But I did it again and the results are the following:
before doing anything, the users directory (under the sieve dir) was
empty; after installing a new vacation msg, the users directory
contained the script, the compiled script and the default link;
after removal of the new vaction message, the users sieve directory was
completely empty again.
I double-checked that useing the following way:
# for I in `find $sievedir`; do md5sum $I >> list_before
... then install new vacation msg ......
# for I in `find $sievedir`; do md5sum $I >> list_after_install
.... then remove the vaction again .....
# for I in `find $sievedir`; do md5sum $I >> list_after_removal
..then I diffed it. simple and clear:
- list_before and list_after_removal are exactly equal
- list_after_install contains only the three named items: source script,
compiled script and "default" symlink
so, this part looks exactly as it should - no abnormal behaviour seen here.
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>> And it's not easy to
>> debug, because it doesn't send the vacation notice every time.
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> Because of the interval between repeat replies to the same sender.
First of all, I thought this too. But I must say, it isn't the case.
Many times I used a "fresh" email address from an external site -
without getting a vacation response. just as it should. but sometimes,
one of my co-workers suddenly gets one. out of nowhere. only one, not
all of them! and the "intervals", if to speak so, go far beyond our
normal resend-vaction-notice interval (wich is 7 days):
maybe once in two months if at all! I know this sounds really strange,
but I honestly tell you the truth!
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> Are you sure there's no .forward with a unix vacation pipe in that specific
> account's home? Check that, also look for a .vacation.msg.
it is a virtual setup and the specific account has no homedir at all.
it's cyrus/postfix/ldap setup using saslauthd.
But anyway, I did a "find / | grep -i vacation | less". I found nothing
of interest.
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>>If anybody could give me a hint or something so look after - I would be
>>glad. this thing drives me totally crazy. I wonder: where is the
>>vacation notice actually stored if not in /var/sieve?
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> It should be the 'sievedir' path in your imapd.conf
somehow, I am sorry to say, I believe this is not the only location.
Maybe somewhere a copy in the mailboxes or so. I just don't know but I
monitored the $sievedir several times while installing a new vacation
notice, looking, and then removing it afterwards. And, hey, it definitly
comes - I just don't know where from.
actually, I can't believe what happens here. Isn't there any developer
reading this who knows the sieve code a bit? Is there a cache, a copy
left somewhere..... anything?
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>>any help: totally appreciated.
henk, thanks for your mailing. do you have another idea about this?
regards, Oliver Sommer
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