dovecot - Aug 2008 - sieve - Sendmail process terminated abnormally, exit status 70

How do we start troubleshooting this?

deliver(user at example.com): Aug 12 18:27:19 Error: Sendmail process 
terminated abnormally, exit status 70

deliver(user at example.com): Aug 12 18:27:19 Info: sieve runtime error: 
Vacation: Error sending mail

deliver(user at example.com): Aug 12 18:27:19 Info: 
msgid=<48A20E3C.7070307 at example.com>: saved mail to INBOX

deliver(user at example.com): Aug 12 18:27:19 Error: 
sieve_execute_bytecode(/var/vmail/example.com/user//Home/.dovecot.sievec) 
failed

It seems to only choke on the vacation portion.  It creates entries in 
the ".dovecot.lda-dupes" file.  But then dies while sending the  reply
e-mail.

The contents of the user's .dovecot.sieve file is:

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require ["fileinto", "include", "vacation"];

# Move spam to spam folder
if exists "X-Spam-Flag" {
   fileinto "spam";
   # Stop here so that we do not reply on spams
   stop;
}

include :personal "sieve-vacation";

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And the "" file looks like:

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require ["vacation"];

vacation

   # Reply at most once a day to a same sender
   :days 1

   :subject "Out of office reply"

   # List of recipient addresses which are included in the auto replying.
   # If a mail's recipient is not on this list, no vacation reply is 
sent for it.
   :addresses "user at example.com"

"blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah,
user at example.com";

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If I comment out the "include :personal "sieve-vacation";"
line, then it
works, but obviously not the vacation portion.  Deliver does at least 
not die horribly.

I get the same error if I move the content of the vacation include file 
into the main ".dovecot.sieve" file.

# ls -la /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/lda/
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root  root  802824 Aug 12 18:12 deliver

# ls -la /usr/libexec/dovecot/
total 5728
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Jul 31 04:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root   4096 Jul 25 04:39 ..
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  58416 Jul 24 06:32 checkpassword-reply
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 666128 Jul 24 06:32 convert-tool
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 802824 Jul 24 06:32 deliver
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 164176 Jul 24 06:32 dict
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 350384 Jul 24 06:32 dovecot-auth
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 674176 Jul 24 06:32 expire-tool
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  59200 Jul 24 06:32 gdbhelper
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 245872 Jul 24 06:32 idxview
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 854488 Jul 24 06:32 imap
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 157216 Jul 24 06:32 imap-login
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  61248 Jul 24 06:32 listview
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  61800 Jul 24 06:32 logview
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  74200 Jul 24 06:32 maildirlock
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    931 Jul 24 06:27 mkcert.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 787464 Jul 24 06:32 pop3
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 149152 Jul 24 06:32 pop3-login
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  83968 Jul 24 06:32 rawlog
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 165152 Jun 11 03:21 sievec
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 157216 Jun 11 03:21 sieved
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  62584 Jul 24 06:32 ssl-build-param

(output of "yum list")
dovecot.x86_64 :1.1.2-2_77.el5 installed
dovecot-sieve.x86_64 1.1.5-8.el5 installed

I'm not finding any AVC errors in the SELinux audit.log file.  And I'm 
not sure what other switches I can turn on to get better error 
information as to what sendmail/deliver are choking on in this virtual 
(setuid) environment where we use Dovecot as the LDA.

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On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Thomas Harold wrote:

Check out /usr/include/sysexits.h what exit code 70 means on your system - 
70 is internal software error in Linux. Then check when /usr/lib/sendmail 
will exit with this code.

Deliver will run /usr/lib/sendmail with the uid of the target mailbox, you 
said virtual user - so you've configured the id in dovecot.conf, I guess.

E.g. test with:

su vuser -c '/usr/lib/sendmail -i -f sender -- target-address' \
  < testmail ; echo $?

Bye,

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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