[Case 80437] cPanel 11.38 breaks email pipes on shared servers

My host provider recently upgraded to 11.38.2 and my advanced email pipe to a PHP script immediately started to fail:

Code:

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

  pipe to |/home/user/public_html/email_proc.php
    generated by email@domain.com

The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:

------ pipe to |/home/user/public_html/email_proc.php
       generated by email@domain.com ------

2013-12-24 10:36:27 [6] Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim_mainlog": Read-only file system: euid=0 egid=32007
2013-12-24 10:36:27 [6] cwd=/home/user/public_html/ 5 args: /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f email@domain.com
2013-12-24 10:36:27 [6] Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim_mainlog": Read-only file system: euid=0 egid=32007
exim: could not open panic log - aborting: see message(s) above

I understand this is probably due to the new Jail System Update.

Is there anyway around this? I understand that EXIM is supposed to run inside the user's VirtFS:

So if Exim does need to write something shouldn't there be a place in the user's file system for this? Right now my host provider is just saying tough luck, you can use pipes anymore on a shared host and sent me a list of other providers.

I could write a cron job to access the mailbox via IMAP and process messages, but that seems like a real waste of power instead of being able to do it on demand.

Thanks in advance for the help.

 

Re: cPanel 11.38 breaks email pipes on shared servers with noshell -- exim read only filesystem erro

Through my testing I've also found that CRON jobs that call php scripts which use mail() generate the same issues as the mail service when it pipes to the script.

Code:

2013-12-25 22:39:01 [4] Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim_mainlog": Read-only file system: euid=0 egid=32007
2013-12-25 22:39:01 [4] cwd=/home/user/public_html/file 3 args: /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
2013-12-25 22:39:01 [4] Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim_mainlog": Read-only file system: euid=0 egid=32007
exim: could not open panic log - aborting: see message(s) above

It would seem that anything that is called via cron or perhaps piped via exec() like from the mail service is not setup to access the VirtFS and is using the common files which are now mounted as read only on a shared host.

Interesting is that anything called via Apache doesn't seem to run into this VirtFS access problem. Is this because Apache is normally setup to spool to the VirtFS?

Any ideas on what is wrong with my host service?

 

Wow, thank you! I thought I was taking crazy pills.

I did see this in 11.40.1.4:

Fixed case 84393: Mount directories rw so mailman can function under jail.

Would this also prevent exim from running jailed (see problem outlined in first post)?