email piping with qmail

snowflake

Valued Member
I have an email address that is just a forward, so

test@example.com just forwards to username@gmail.com


In the .qmail file for test I have this:
| /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/info/api/pipe.php
#| true
&username@gmail.com


The api script is set to 755 as well.



When I send an email to test@ I get this error in the maillog

Nov 18 16:24:45 servername qmail: 1384809885.825195 starting delivery 25495: msg 122093577 to local 7-test@example.com
Nov 18 16:24:45 servername qmail-local-handlers[30150]: to=test@example.com
Nov 18 16:24:45 servername qmail-local-handlers[30150]: mailbox: /var/qmail/mailnames/example.com/test
Nov 18 16:24:45 servername qmail: 1384809885.831906 delivery 25495: deferral: /bin/sh:_/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/info/api/pipe.php:_Permission_denied/


AND with what I read on some issues, they said to add the php path to the script which i did in the qmail file like this:
| /usr/bin/php /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/info/api/pipe.php
#| true
&username@gmail.com



And then I get this:
Nov 18 16:30:10 servername qmail-queue-handlers[30602]: to=test@example.com
Nov 18 16:30:10 servername qmail: 1384810210.706332 starting delivery 25527: msg 113348250 to local 7-test@example.com
Nov 18 16:30:10 servername qmail-local-handlers[30606]: to=test@example.com
Nov 18 16:30:10 servername qmail-local-handlers[30606]: mailbox: /var/qmail/mailnames/example.com/test
Nov 18 16:30:10 servername qmail: 1384810210.764939 delivery 25527: deferral: Could_not_open_input_file:_/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/info/api/pipe.php/
 

EQ Admin

EQ Forum Admin
Staff member
After reading the first example my reply was going to be try what you did in the second example, ad the /path/to/php in front of the script name.

Does the world have access to /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/info/api/pipe.php ?

Is that php trying to do anything with files?

It it trying to read/write anything that wouldn't be accessible by the qmail users?
 

EQ Admin

EQ Forum Admin
Staff member
This was fixed by:

  1. Fixing the permissions on the httpdocs folder so that qmail users could reach the api.php within that dir structure
  2. Removing the space between the pipe and the command
After removing the space the first line of the .qmail file became:

|/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/info/api/pipe.php
 

snowflake

Valued Member
That issue you fixed last time where it was saying

Could_not_open_input_file:_/var/www/vhosts/.....

I thought it was just to chmod the httpdocs to 755 but that didn't work for this one.


They upgraded my plesk because the update wouldn't work, so I had to redo this email piping.
 

EQ Admin

EQ Forum Admin
Staff member
This was needed to fix again:

chmod 755 /var/www/vhosts/example.com

Remove the space between the | and /path/to/php in the .qmail files

"|/path/to/php" not "| /path/to/php"
 
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