Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:55:26 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052 procmail vacation not working on Centos 3 Centos (RHEL) 3.x, sendmail 8.12.11-4.RHEL3.6, procmail 3.22-10.el3.centos.0 (e.g., a stock Centos 3.9 Final machine). User has setup a vacation message via ingo using the procmail driver, and using a time period. (I have not tested without the time period; should try that sometime). Using the stock vacation procmail recipe, it sends no vacation messages. The message is delieved normally to the recipient. The procmail log shows: procmail: Executing "formail,-rD,8192,/u1/demkov/.vacation.demkov" procmail: Non-zero exitcode (1) from "formail" procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded procmail: Non-zero exitcode (-11) from "procmail" If I change the recipe from using "0: Whaf" to use "0: Wha" then the vacation message is sent properly, but the recipient gets two copies of the message in their inbox. This is preferable to not sending a vacation message, but still not good... I tried using Whafi, but it didn't seem to help (still got the errors shown above). Any ideas what is wrong? Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:40:49 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t47411 Can you attach the generated procmailrc? Or email me privately if it has sensitive info? Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:05:26 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t47415 http://www.stimpy.net/procmail/tutorial/vacation.html suggests that we should be using Whc:. Can you try that? Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:42:39 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t47500 Changes have been made in CVS for this ticket: http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/ingo/lib/Script/procmail.php?r1=1.97&r2=1.98&ty=u Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:53:34 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t47501 A very quick check seems to indicate this change is better but still not right. I regenerated the .procmailrc script with the change, emptied the .vacation.* database, then sent two messages from myself to the user. First message triggered an auto-response which I got fine, second didn't. That is as expected. But the user (with the .procmailrc) received duplicate copies of each message... Maybe there is something specific to my site causing the duplication, I don't know. But I do prefer it with this change, than without. Since I'd rather have them get a duplicate of everything, than have no vacation reply sent out. But either something else in my setup isn't right (causing the duplicate), or something else in this script isn't right (causing the duplicate). I'll try to investigate more later, and post more when/if I figure out what is going on... Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:42:34 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t47517 Can you post procmail debug logs for the first and second messages with clean databases. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:26:46 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t47519 Matt, can you please review this ticket? Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:16:52 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t47829 We're seeing double-delivery because the {}'s are causing procmail to fork another copy and we get a delivery at the end of both }. We either need to deliver the inner } to /dev/null, which looks weird, or we eliminate the inner {}. Which method is preferred? Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:50:38 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t47904 I went with the /dev/null method for now. Can you try this out? Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:00:36 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t47905 Ping? Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:47:07 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t48202 This patch doesn't apply to CVS HEAD. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:35:39 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t48259 Try this. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:20:41 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t48262 Changes have been made in CVS for this ticket: http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/ingo/lib/Script/procmail.php?r1=1.98&r2=1.99&ty=u Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:28:35 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t48263 Committed and merged, in absence of any feedback, thanks. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:29:32 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t48264 Hi, the procmail vacation script isn't working in the new ingo release (1.2.1). It seems that the new /dev/null method breaks the script entirely: No vacation message is being sent and, even worse, incoming mails are not being delivered to the Inbox anymore. Seems they are copied to /dev/null! When commenting these lines :0 /dev/null the script works fine again. Seems that this fix has never been tested against other operating systems than Centos 3. I'm using standard packages on a Debian etch machine. Bye Volker Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:23:27 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t48886 Can anybody using Procmail provide a working and compatible solution for this issue? Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:04:08 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t53625 The :0 /dev/null surely breaks things in lenny. The patch we use and seems to solve most problems is attached. The {'s shouldn't start a new copy at all reading the documentation: { Followed by at least one space, tab or newline will mark the start of a nesting block. Everything up till the next closing brace will depend on the conditions specified for this recipe. Unlimited nesting is permitted. The closing brace exists merely to delimit the block, it will not cause procmail to terminate in any way. If the end of a block is reached processing will continue as usual after the block. On a nesting block, the flags ‘H’ and ‘B’ only affect the conditions leading up to the block, the flags ‘h’ and ‘b’ have no effect whatsoever. Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:09:00 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t53646 There was more wrong with the procmail vacation script that was produced. Put some time in it and came up with the following diff. I think the resulting script is also easier to read Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:59:45 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t53851 Volker, Eric, does this patch work for you? Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:27:40 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t53853 Ping? Wed, 13 May 2009 16:11:18 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t54117 Giving up. With the current support for the maildrop and procmail drivers, we should consider dropping them. Tue, 26 May 2009 11:38:26 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t54303 I've provided patches which we have been testing for a lot of our customers. If you dont mind,we would like to take over maintainership for this part of horde. Tue, 26 May 2009 12:14:36 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t54308 That would be great. We desperately need dedicated maintainers for those drivers. Tue, 26 May 2009 12:19:49 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t54309 That would be great indeed - how do you want to handle this? Submit patches, or commit access, or? Thanks! Thu, 28 May 2009 03:30:34 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t54317 Ping (once again)? Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:01:52 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t54459 Sorry, you haven't heared from me, but i've became a father for the second time ;-) We still use my patch on several customer servers without problems. I'm unable to try it on CentoOS3 and I can't be botherd to install such an old version of CentOS, sorry. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:49:07 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t54741 Uhm, what does this have to with our questions? Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:13:32 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t54907 > Uhm, what does this have to with our questions? Hmm, maybe a long way to say, please use my patches and close this case. Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:10:19 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t54914 So you are *not* longer interested in maintaining those drivers? Is that what you are saying? Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:49:50 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t54935 Not at all, I was just trying to say why it to longer to react to your request. I just mean to say: 1. I've fixed some issues, please import these. I think they will solve several issues. 2. I will not test this specific case (#7052) so if the o.p. doesn't react please close this case and let's go on to other issues. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:55:03 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t54936 The patch doesn't apply to procmail.php. Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:10:05 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t55358 The ingofix2.diff does apply I hope? Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:17:11 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t55359 No, that's the patch I was trying. Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:22:00 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t55360 I'll rewrite it for cvs then. Will take a day of two probably Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:49:25 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t55373 Have you made any progress yet? Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:07:14 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t55627 After enjoying my vacation, here is (finally) a patch against 1.100 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:56:45 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t55768 1.100 of what? Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:33:00 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t55769 $Horde: ingo/lib/Script/procmail.php,v 1.100 2008/11/07 06:28:03 chuck Exp $ Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:45:16 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t55771 This is from an abandoned branch (see 1st.README). Either use the latest version from Git, or from the FRAMEWORK_3 CVS branch. Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:01:05 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t55773 Luckily the patch applies without any problems on $Horde: ingo/lib/Script/procmail.php,v 1.46.10.31 2008/11/07 16:53:43 chuck Exp $ Btw. It's not easy to go to the FRAMEWORK_3 branche on http://cvs.horde.org/ Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:17:25 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t55774 Changes have been made in CVS for this ticket: Fix procmail vacation rule (micha@kovoks.nl, Bug #7052). http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/ingo/docs/CHANGES?rt=horde&r1=1.55.2.127&r2=1.55.2.128&ty=u http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/ingo/lib/Script/procmail.php?rt=horde&r1=1.46.10.32&r2=1.46.10.33&ty=u Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:37:25 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t55776 > Luckily the patch applies without any problems on > $Horde: ingo/lib/Script/procmail.php,v 1.46.10.31 2008/11/07 16:53:43 > chuck Exp $ Great! Committed, many thanks! > Btw. It's not easy to go to the FRAMEWORK_3 branche on http://cvs.horde.org/ Yes, known problem, see bug #8561. Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:38:28 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t55778 Changes have been made in Git for this ticket: MFB: Fix procmail vacation rule (micha@kovoks.nl, Bug #7052). http://git.horde.org/diff.php/ingo/docs/CHANGES?rt=horde-hatchery&r1=ae3dfa4f32a99ebaff33773bd40b822903867de8&r2=19e4902b7388356321c589fd133a66046649fd52 http://git.horde.org/diff.php/ingo/lib/Script/Procmail.php?rt=horde-hatchery&r1=9b22223f642b6ab65a71694ff34f709f06dfce9d&r2=19e4902b7388356321c589fd133a66046649fd52 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:54:39 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t55784 Changes have been made in Git for this ticket: MFB: Fix procmail vacation rule (micha@kovoks.nl, Bug #7052). http://git.horde.org/diff.php/ingo/docs/CHANGES?rt=horde-git&r1=ae3dfa4f32a99ebaff33773bd40b822903867de8&r2=19e4902b7388356321c589fd133a66046649fd52 http://git.horde.org/diff.php/ingo/lib/Script/Procmail.php?rt=horde-git&r1=9b22223f642b6ab65a71694ff34f709f06dfce9d&r2=19e4902b7388356321c589fd133a66046649fd52 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:11:26 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7052#t57615