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Mails do not get sent to users when exim is used as mail daemon (sendmail with -t command).

Created by: pspoerri

  1. Summary: Mails do not get sent to users when exim is used as mail daemon.

  2. Steps to reproduce: Setup gitlab (5.2 and 6.0) on linux with exim as sendmail client.

  3. Expected behavior: Mail should arrive at users location.

  4. Observed behavior: Gitlab will notify that a mail to $user has been sent but exim won't report that it sent a mail to $user. Exim will also report

    From: Mail Delivery System <[email protected]>
Subject: Mail failure - no recipient addresses
Date: 29. Juli 2013 13:51:23 MESZ
To: <[email protected]>
A message that you sent using the -t command line option contained no
addresses that were not also on the command line, and were therefore
suppressed. This left no recipient addresses, and so no delivery could
be attempted.

  5. Output of checks

    • Results of GitLab [Application Check]

      # bundle exec rake gitlab:check RAILS_ENV=production
Checking Environment ...
Git configured for git user? ... yes
Has python2? ... yes
python2 is supported version? ... yes
Checking Environment ... Finished
Checking GitLab Shell ...
GitLab Shell version >= 1.7.0 ? ... OK (1.7.0)
Repo base directory exists? ... yes
Repo base directory is a symlink? ... no
Repo base owned by git:git? ... yes
Repo base access is drwxrws---? ... yes
post-receive hook up-to-date? ... yes
post-receive hooks in repos are links: ...
Checking GitLab Shell ... Finished
Checking Sidekiq ...
Running? ... yes
Checking Sidekiq ... Finished
Checking GitLab ...
Database config exists? ... yes
Database is SQLite ... no
All migrations up? ... yes
GitLab config exists? ... yes
GitLab config outdated? ... no
Log directory writable? ... yes
Tmp directory writable? ... yes
Init script exists? ... no
Try fixing it:
Install the init script
For more information see:
doc/install/installation.md in section "Install Init Script"
Please fix the error above and rerun the checks.
Init script up-to-date? ... can't check because of previous errors
Projects have satellites? ...
[...]
Redis version >= 2.0.0? ... yes
Your git bin path is "/usr/bin/git"
Git version >= 1.7.10 ? ... no
Try fixing it:
Update your git to a version >= 1.7.10 from 1.7.9
Please fix the error above and rerun the checks.

      I know that git has not been updated yet. But it doesn't have anything to do with gitlab email. Hence I'm leaving it there.

    1. Possible fixes:
        diff --git a/config/application.rb b/config/application.rb
        index f7349fa..75eee2c 100644
        --- a/config/application.rb
        +++ b/config/application.rb
        @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ end

         module Gitlab
           class Application < Rails::Application
        +    config.action_mailer.sendmail_settings = { :arguments => "-i" }
        +
             # Settings in config/environments/* take precedence over those specified he
             # Application configuration should go into files in config/initializers
             # -- all .rb files in that directory are automatically loaded.

This issue was also discussed in #3943 (closed). I thought to reopen it but since it was closed by the requestor. I thought it might be better to just create a new issue.

The issue is also discussed here: https://github.com/mikel/mail/issues/70