problems with body and subject with Autoresponders to accompany Virtual Users guide

Hello

I followed the guide:

http://www.howtoforge.com/autoresponders_for_virtual_postfix_users

I have some questions:

Do the file email_subject.patch must be created in this directory? (I did it here... is this ok?): /usr/local/postfix-tools/yaa-0.3/lib/ ?


When I enter this command:
patch -p0 <email-subject.patch (Check the name, in the step before the file name is: email_subject.patch and not: email-subject.patch)

Then i got the following message:
can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- Autoresponse.pm 2004-08-19 20:35:28.000000000 +0200
|+++ Autoresponse.pm 2005-07-14 13:16:03.000000000 +0200
--------------------------
File to patch:


I don't know what file I have to patch.

With this problem, the autoresponder worked, but with gmail a got this subject:
=?us-ascii?Q?subject=

Where subject is the text I putted at DB.

With Hotmail the subjects looks fine

With Hotmail and Gmail at the body I can see:
?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable

body

Where body is the text I putted at DB.

This mail system is configurate with: http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual_postfix_mysql_quota_courier

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

 

thanks but didn't work

Hello Till

I did exactly what you post, but when i did:
sudo patch -p0 <email-subject.patch

I got:
-bash: email-subject.patch: No such file or directory

I did with the name: email_subject.patch but I got:
sudo patch -p0 <email_subject.patch
can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- Autoresponse.pm 2004-08-19 20:35:28.000000000 +0200
|+++ Autoresponse.pm 2005-07-14 13:16:03.000000000 +0200
--------------------------
File to patch:

I created the file with copy and paste using vim.

Thanks for your help

 

Are you sure you created the file /usr/local/postfix-tools/yaa-0.3/lib/email_subject.patch?

What's the output of

Code:

updatedb
locate email_subject.patch

?

 

in answer to

Hello Falko

At: /usr/local/postfix-tools/yaa-0.3/lib
I made "ls" and I got:
email_subject.patch email_subject.patch~ Yaa Yaa.pm

(Please look files names: The how-to said:
"patch -p0 <email-subject.patch" but before we made the file with this name:
email_subject.patch *with underscore between email and subject*)

The output of locate email_subject.patch is:
/usr/local/postfix-tools/yaa-0.3/lib/email_subject.patch


Thanks for your help!

 

Then the correct command is

Code:

patch -p0 <email[B][COLOR="Red"]_[/COLOR][/B]subject.patch

 

What file are we patching?

I am having issues understanding this as well. While the new command works, I still do not understand what information needs to be provided when I try to run the script.

Here is the output.

can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- Autoresponse.pm 2004-08-19 20:35:28.000000000 +0200
|+++ Autoresponse.pm 2005-07-14 13:16:03.000000000 +0200
--------------------------
File to patch:
​

Thanks!!

Slicer

 

Did you run this from the correct directory?

What's the output of

Code:

updatedb
locate Autoresponse.pm

?

 

Sorry guys about the "-" and the "_" mixup in the guide! Hopefully you're all now sorted with working autoresponders!

Merry Christmas, now for some tv and a large satisfying but ultimately glutonous dinner

 

same problem that Slicer

Hello falko

Thanks for your help

When I made:
sudo patch -p0 <email_subject.patch
I got:


can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- Autoresponse.pm 2004-08-19 20:35:28.000000000 +0200
|+++ Autoresponse.pm 2005-07-14 13:16:03.000000000 +0200
--------------------------
File to patch:

I made:
updatedb
locate Autoresponse.pm

And I got:
/usr/local/postfix-tools/yaa-0.3/lib/Yaa/Autoresponse.pm

And I was excecuting the patch at:
/usr/local/postfix-tools/yaa-0.3/lib/

I executed the patch at:
/usr/local/postfix-tools/yaa-0.3/lib/Yaa/

But now I got:
patching file Autoresponse.pm
patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line
patch: **** malformed patch at line 13:

My File is:

--- Autoresponse.pm 2004-08-19 20:35:28.000000000 +0200
+++ Autoresponse.pm 2005-07-14 13:16:03.000000000 +0200
@@ -182,7 +182,11 @@
push(@headers, "Precedence: bulk");

# Subject
- push(@headers, "Subject: =?" . (($self->{charset}) ? $self->{charset} : $self->{default_charset}) . "?Q?" . encode_qp($subject) . "?=");
+ #
+ # Fixes the strange subjects that email clients don't understand
+ # (second argument on encode_qp should be "")
+ push(@headers, "Subject: =?" . (($self->{charset}) ? $self->{charset} : $self->{default_charset}) . "?Q?" . encode_qp($subject,"") . "?=");


push(@headers, "MIME-Version: 1.0");

Thanks.

 

I think you should start over with Yaa. Maybe your previous problems with the patch are causing the current problems...

 

other problem

Hello

I stared over Yaa, but when I did:

/usr/local/postfix-tools/yaa-0.3/lib/Yaa$ sudo patch -p0 <email_subject.patch
I got:
---------------------------------------------------
patching file Autoresponse.pm
patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line
patch: **** malformed patch at line 13:

----------------------------------------------------

Thanks for help

 

Maybe your Yaa version does not match the patch or something like that.

 

Resolved

Hello

I found this archive:
http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-9542.html

I made the change manually at the file:
/usr/local/postfix-tools/yaa-0.3/lib/Yaa/Autoresponse.pm

I changed:
push(@headers, "Subject: =?" . (($self->{charset}) ? $self->{charset} : $self->{default_charset}) . "?Q?" . encode_qp($subject) . "?=");

For this:
push(@headers, "Subject: =?" . (($self->{charset}) ? $self->{charset} : $self->{default_charset}) . "?Q?" . encode_qp($subject,"") . "?="); (that's all the patch does).

And now all is OK!!

Thanks for all the help!

 

Thank you! - Ordinary users?

I had the same problem with patch and now it is working.

I have another question about this topic - how can the ordinary users change there autorespond message? Have you done some admn page for them?

_____________
Pelle Hanses

 

Port 81 - ...

Thanks for very fast reply till!

I have messed something up - I can't connect to port 81. Everything else are working correct. Do you have a clou where I can start locking?
I have installed my system after "Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft)". It's maybe because that I do not have anything answering to port 81?

 

Did you install ISPConfig? ISPConfig is incompatible with the virtual user Postfix setup.

 

No, I did not install (I have tested but I have started over without it when I discovered I can not login whit my users in SQL DB).

(I ment "port 81" not "port 80" in my last reply).

till wrote as answer
"They can change them trough the mailuser login:

http://www.yourdomain.com:81/mailuser/ "

How should I config apache to answer on port 81 and let the users log in whitout ISPConfig?

 

This doesn't work without ISPConfig.

So you cannot connect to port 80, right? What's the output of

Code:

netstat -tap

?

 

Excuse me - I ment I can not connect to port 81. Port 80 works fine.

Output from netstat -tap
_______________________________________________________
mail04:/usr/local/postfix-tools# netstat -tap
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdo:10024 *:* LISTEN 1937/amavisd (maste
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdo:10025 *:* LISTEN 2618/master
tcp 0 0 *:778 *:* LISTEN 2292/rpc.statd
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdo:mysql *:* LISTEN 2125/mysqld
tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN 1590/portmap
tcp 0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 2305/apache
tcp 0 0 *:auth *:* LISTEN 2069/inetd
tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 2618/master

_______________________________________________________

The only thing that I now have problem with are how can my users change the autoreply message and turn it on/off?

Do I have to make my own script in php or something to let the users to change this? My php-skill are not the best but I probably can manage it. My question are how to login and how to only give users permission on there own post in the " autoresponder"-table. But I will probably solve that sometime...