Cannot change sendmail arguments as needed by Exim

Created by: cinderblock

Gitlab emails have never worked for me.

I've traced it down to gitlab calling /usr/sbin/sendmail -i -t -f gitlab@server user@test.com.

The problem is the -t flag is broken for some reason.

Others have come across this issue before. Both here #138 (closed), mikel/mail#70 and on other RoR Q&A forums.

The proposed fix of adding the following line line to the config, either to application.rb or production.rb, does not work for me.

config.action_mailer.sendmail_settings = { :arguments => '-i' }

I'm guessing something has change since then. (I'm on 5.1). My guess is sidekiq now sends the emails and it uses a different set of config files. I however cannot find them.

Any suggestions?

Created by: cinderblock

For now I have added the following line to my exim.conf which allows mails to be sent.

extract_addresses_remove_arguments = false

However, I will leave this issue open as the original issue of not being able to set sendmail_settings stands.

By Administrator on 2013-05-15T01:45:02 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2013-05-15T01:45:02 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: bbodenmiller

Does this issue still exist in 5.2 or the latest master? Thanks for the issue report. Please reformat your issue to conform to the issue tracker guidelines found in our contributing guidelines.

By Administrator on 2013-06-14T14:26:25 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2013-06-14T14:26:25 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: cinderblock

Things have changed. Defaults now work with exim but original issue persists. I will open a new ticket for it.

By Administrator on 2013-06-17T22:58:23 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2013-06-17T22:58:23 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: cinderblock

Oops. Looks like part of the issue was sidekiq not getting restarted correctly. All seems to work.

By Administrator on 2013-06-18T01:58:15 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2013-06-18T01:58:15 (imported from GitLab)