Running latest ISPCFG3 on Debian8 So in the server configs I have checked: Send quota warnings to client Send quota warnings to admin I grep the mail log files and see both emails have been sent out. BUT the sender seems to be my Gmail address and not the usual ISPCFG3 sender. Neither I nor the client have received this email. Is there any AUTh going on here or does ISPCFG3 simply set my Gmail address as sender? Where does ISPCFG3 get this email address from which it uses as sender? I mean its mine but where would I replace it... ###edit### I have foudn the ticket where it was implemented: http://bugtracker.ispconfig.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=2203
Anyone able to shed some light onto this? I see the cron job ran and apparently sent out those emails but they never arrived. Any feedback highly welcome! This is the log part but these emails never arrive: Code: Nov 3 00:30:02 h2118175 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured, session=<EKZzUZYjwQB/AA AB> mail() on [/usr/local/ispconfig/server/cron_daily.php:694]: To: [email protected] -- Headers: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-T ransfer-Encoding: 8bit From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] Subject : Mailbox quota notification The mailbox [email protected] is near or over quot a. Mailbox: [email protected] Name: test Used space: 982.7813 KB Quota: 1 MB Usage ratio: 95.97% mail() on [/usr/local/ispconfig/server/cron_daily.php:694]: To: [email protected] -- Headers: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf -8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From:[email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Mailbox quota notification The mailbox [email protected] is near or over quota. Mailbox: [email protected] Name: test Used space: 982.7813 KB Quota: 1 MB Usage ratio: 95.97%
Curious, the dovecot pop3 log clearly is, but the rest is certainly not familiar mail.log territory. Is there nothing logged by your MTA? Eg. try something like this to see postfix logs: egrep '[email protected]|[email protected]' mail.log | grep postfix
yes, exactly. the rest of my logs looks like they always do except they are interrupted by these 2 weird looking ones. I did a grep, that is how I found these two occurrences in the first place You can test it yourself, setup a client, check the box that says send notifications about quotas, create a 1mb mailbox, send enough emails to fill it, wait for the next day and check your mail logs. Code: (3:1026)# grep -i 'helpdesk' /var/log/mail.* /var/log/mail.log.1:mail() on [/usr/local/ispconfig/server/cron_daily.php:694]: To: [email protected] -- Headers: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Mailbox quota notification The mailbox [email protected] is near or over quota. Mailbox: [email protected] Name: test Used space: 982.7813 KB Quota: 1 MB Usage ratio: 95.97%
That's not written by syslog (eg. no leading time stamp); almost like php mail() is writing debug output directly to mail.log. Check your php.ini, you don't have mail.log set to /var/log/mail.log by chance? Code: >> excerpt from /etc/php5/cli/php.ini << ; The path to a log file that will log all mail() calls. Log entries include ; the full path of the script, line number, To address and headers. ;mail.log = ; Log mail to syslog (Event Log on Windows). ;mail.log = syslog
well spotted, thank you so much! Code: mail.log = /var/log/mail.log is inside but if I didn't have that, I wouldn't have caught this problem Now that we know this, the problem remains why the emails never arrive and how can I change the sender.
maybe set mail.log = syslog, then see what gets logged? (perhaps php's debug message was wiping out a message syslog had already written or ?) You could write a simple php script to test sending mail from so you don't have to wait for a nightly cronjob, and make sure it works.
could you please expand upon: "You could write a simple php script to test sending mail from so you don't have to wait for a nightly cronjob, and make sure it works."
Use something like this to test that php can send mail from the commandline: PHP: #!/usr/bin/php<?php$to='[email protected]';$from=$to;$subject='test message';$message="This is a test message.If you got this, php is sending mail from the command line.message from: $frommessage to: $to";$headers = "From: $from";mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);?> If it sends, the problem is specific to ispconfig. If it doesn't, troubleshoot until it does (look at php.ini settings, check syslog and php mail.log debug messages, etc.).
That worked but I'm not surprised, after all all hosted websites can send emails via contact forms and the likes and that works through php cli too, right? Anyway, I sent a message without modifying this line mail.log = /var/log/mail.log and surprisingly, inside mail.log I saw "proper" logging happening, not like the above output produced by ISPCFG3 weird. Thanks for the assistance so far, I'll see what I can figure out on my own.
