Scott Bronson wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 08:01 -0500, Ken Murchison wrote:
Is notifyd running? Can it find the 'sendmail' binary?
Ah. I thought notifyd was just for mail notifications, not sieve too.
I was misled by this entry in imapd.conf(5):
notifysocket: {configdirectory}/socket/notify
Unix domain socket that the new mail notification daemon listens
on.
So I didn't enable notifyd when installing. Now it's running hunky
dory.
Might I suggest some changes so others don't suffer the same fate?
1. change the description of notifysocket in imapd.conf(5) to be
applicable to more than new mail notification:
old: Unix domain socket that the new mail notification...
new: Unix domain socket that the notification daemon listens on.
Done.
2. Add a debug message that says that the notification daemon could not
be contacted so the notification is being dropped on the floor. That
way the problem would have been less silent.
There *are* LOG_ERR messages (imap/notify.c) when we fail to talk to
notifyd. You should have these in your logs.
3. The notification sent by sieve has the subject "New mail
notification." That's a little strange. Is there any way to
change the subject so it doesn't overlap with actual new mail
notifications? The Sieve notification could be sent for any
reason.
Even Sieve notifications are triggered by new mail (Sieve only runs on
mail delivery. I did change the Subject: so that it uses the 'class'
passed to it (either "MAIL" or "SIEVE").
4. master/conf/normal.conf, make notifyd sound a bit more critical:
change: # this is only necessary if using notifications
# notify cmd="notifyd" ...
to : # this is necessary when using notifications
notify cmd="notifyd" ...
Changed it to "this is required when using notifications".
Why not enable notifyd by default? Proper notification is a rather
important part of sieve filtering isn't it?
Because its not required and not everybody uses it.
--
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University
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