Topic: Mailsorting - Cannot get geekmode to work

[CmdLn]

I have enabled geekmode for a number of "system" accounts that need advanced procmail recipes. When I rebooted yesterday all my custom .procmailrc files were overwritten with defaults it seems. Am I missing something?

[ReetP]

You haben't told us what you did or what happened prior to this.

A recent update to the contrib pehaps?

There was a fix to allow sorting admin mail. Not sure it should wreck your existing setups though?

See:
https://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9737

[CmdLn]

I require certain system mail accounts to reject mails larger than 4MB. This seems to be beyond the standard mailsorting contribs capabilities.

The mailsorting documentation says you can prevent template overwrites by enabling geekmode.

$ db accounts setprop USERNAME geekmode enabled


I did this for all my system accounts and have double checked that the db config records still show this field after the reboot, however my custom .procmailrc entries are gone.

[ReetP]

I require certain system mail accounts to reject mails larger than 4MB. This seems to be beyond the standard mailsorting contribs capabilities.

The mailsorting documentation says you can prevent template overwrites by enabling geekmode.

$ db accounts setprop USERNAME geekmode enabled


I did this for all my system accounts and have double checked that the db config records still show this field after the reboot, however my custom .procmailrc entries are gone.

You still haven't told us what you did before this occurred.

In the words of Mr Zamboni of these parts, this is an X and Y problem: http://xyproblem.info/

We can't help you if you don't provide something for us to go on....


B. Rgds
John

[CmdLn]

We have a Windows based web system which pops mail from our SME server. Data from these mails is extracted and stored in an MS-SQL database and used is some way by the system. Mails bigger than 4MB cause issues for the system, I dont know what the issues are but I will have to ask the developers if this info is really needed to solve my problem. I have been asked to bounce messages larger than 4MB to system mail accounts but not mails to standard email accounts.

I have been able to do this with mailsorting and custom .procmailrc, however after a system reboot my custom .procmailrc is gone even though I have set geekmode for these users.

I would like to know how to have custom .procmailrc files that dont get overwritten, but still have mailsorting contrib work because we also use the web driven mailsorting for reasons which I am sure is not relevant to this question.

[CmdLn]

I have added the following code to the system .procmailrc under  #--------- user rules -----------

SEDSCRIPT='0,/^$/ s//\nYour message was rejected because its too big [Max=4MB]\n/'
MAILADDR=me@nowhere

:0
* > 4000000
| formail -rk  \
| sed "$SEDSCRIPT" \
| $SENDMAIL -t

[CmdLn]

I have also tried getting around this by adding

# ---- include custom user rules from .procmailrc-custom -------
INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/.procmailrc-custom

to /etc/e-smith/templates-users-custom/.procmailrc/50custom

Then in the homedir of a user that I dont want overwritten I have added my procmail recipe to .procmailrc-custom

For some reason the includes recipe is ignored.

[ReetP]

And you STILL haven't told us what you did that might have made a change to your server....

I really don't care that much about all the whys and wherefores of your procmails or big mails or any mails, because we can't cure ANY of that unless we find out WHAT CHANGED !!!!!

So, go back and tell us what happened prior to things changing. Tell us about the simple history of this server, and what you did to it just before things changed. You rebooted. Why ?

[CmdLn]

I am not sure I understand your line of questioning?

I rebooted because server-manager required a reconfigure/reboot after installing an update. I think an update to sudo, but I didnt make a note.

The .procmailrc rules were added just a few days ago and this is the first reboot since then.

[Stefano]

ok..

how did you create your .procmailrc custom files?
which updates did you install?

would you mind to take a look at the logs and (really) start helping us to help you? ATM you're just saying us "it doesn't work"

[CmdLn]

The .procmailrc files were already in the home folders for all users. Maybe installed by mailsorting contrib or maybe they are just there by default? I edited them with vi and made the changes mentioned before, in the place mentioned before and in each users home folder that I wanted a custom procmail recipe.

The server is SME 9.2 and up to date according to server-manager. I assume that means everything that could possibly be updated is updated to the latest version?

Does "geekmode" do what I think it does which is protect custom .procmailrc files from being overwritten by templated .procmailrc files?

Any idea what log file I should look at to shed some light?

[Stefano]

well, it seems you hit a bug..

please open a bug, asap, thank you

[ReetP]

Note: A little bit of history will go a long way to helping

Think I have sussed it - I'll open a bug and post a patched file to test as I can['t attach one here

Give me 10 minutes

[ReetP]

https://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10366

try the patched file and see what happens please.

If that fixes it I'll push a patch to CVS

[CmdLn]

The patch works as far as I can tell. Thanks.

[ReetP]

Can you note that on the bug please?