Email in OpenBSD chroot

[Dirk-san]

Hello,

 

I am running OSC on OpenBSD 3.6. The web server is chrooted and while I can access the database via socket, OSC (unlike say phpBB) doesn't emails because, due to the chroot certain libraries or whatever are not available.

 

I have found a solution that lets PHP send email OK using phpmailer functions, however it doesn't seem to help with OSC without some hacking, which at this time I don't feel capable of. (see here)

 

Has anybody made OSC with email work on OpenBSD while maintaining the chroot?

 

Thanks

 

Dirk

[Guest]

are you using sendmail on openbsd? shouldnt have to do much, if you need smtp authentication, you can do so, (contribution for that)

 

um, is this your own server at home or are you at a host?

[Dirk-san]

Hi there,

 

thanks for responding.

 

Yes, the server is my own, so I can do what I like :thumbsup: But I would really like to maintain the chroot.

 

I am using Postfix instead of sendmail. But the sendmail option won't work because there are no binaries for that available to Apache. I know there is a workaround called mini_sendmail, but it needs a copy of the sh binary, and again that is something I would like to avoid.

 

So for example in phpBB, I set it to SMTP and the server to localhost or 127.0.0.1 and the email works. I have to check how they do their mail.

 

So currently OSC reports that the emails were sent successfully, but nothing in the maillog.

 

Since the example simple PHP mail script that I referenced in my initial post works now, I would like OSC to behave the same way, i.e. with the help of phpmailer code.

 

Cheers

 

Dirk

[Guest]

try doing as you did in phpbb and set mail to smtp in the admin area of the store.

or get freebsd, that works . . .

[Dirk-san]

try doing as you did in phpbb and set mail to smtp in the admin area of the store.

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Tried that first.

[Dirk-san]

OK, I fixed it, but it is a raw hack.

 

Inserted into both instances of email.php:

 

Somewhere at the beginning:

 

require("class.phpmailer.php");  

 

Then replaced

 

      if (EMAIL_TRANSPORT == 'smtp') {
       return mail($to_addr, $subject, $this->output, 'From: ' . $from . $this->lf . 'To: ' . $to . $this->lf . implode($this->lf, $this->headers) . $this->lf . implode($this->lf, $x
tra_headers));
     } else {
       return mail($to, $subject, $this->output, 'From: '.$from.$this->lf.implode($this->lf, $this->headers).$this->lf.implode($this->lf, $xtra_headers));
     }

 

with

 

      if (EMAIL_TRANSPORT == 'smtp') {
       $mail = new PHPMailer();
       $mail->IsSMTP();
       $mail->AddAddress($to_addr);
       $mail->Subject = $subject;
       $mail->Host = "localhost";
       $mail->From = $from;
       $mail->FromName = $from_name;
       $mail->Body = $this->output;
       
       if(!$mail->Send()) {
               return mail($to_addr, $subject, $this->output, 'From: ' . $from . $this->lf . 'To: ' . $to . $this->lf . implode($this->lf, $this->headers) . $this->lf . implode($this
->lf, $xtra_headers));
               }
     } else {

       return mail($to, $subject, $this->output, 'From: '.$from.$this->lf.implode($this->lf, $this->headers).$this->lf.implode($this->lf, $xtra_headers));
     }

 

Plus, as quoted the instructions from here.

 

This seems to work most of the time, which is good enough for me for now.

 

Thanks for looking.

[Dirk-san]

Make that

 

$mail->From = $from_addr;

[yocompia]

dirk-san,

 

i'd just like to say thanks a ton for having posted this. i had used this hack that mr. velasco posted on misc@ quite some time ago but was unable to find it again recently. your post did helped me find it and now the emails work just right :).

 

cheers