Pierce Forrest England wrote:
hunted around the archives, none of the replies seemed to help with
this, so apologies if this has been answered before and I missed it.
I'm trying to get maildrop to execute a little c program when I send
it an email with the subject line "Bl" from my phone:
if (/^From: 8029...@VTEXT.COM/ && /^Subject: Bl/)
{
xfilter "/home/fengland/bin/blastgb"
}
the filter is matching fine. Replacing the binary with a simple shell
script echoing some output to a file works just fine, but when I try
to get it to execute the binary, I get this in the maillog:
Mar 22 14:59:11 doghouse maildrop[13201]: Unable to filter message.
does the program read from stdin? what does
# cat message.eml | /home/fengland/bin/blastgb
say?
it will filter the message ok when putting the command in backticks
and specifying a mailbox to deliver to on the next line, but the
command again doesn't run. "blastgb" logs to a file, but nothing shows
up there, and it doesn't do anything. I can run it just fine from the
command line. my shell is /bin/bash, and SHELL=/bin/bash is specified
in my .mailfilterrc as well. Maildrop is running in delivery mode via
postfix with /usr/bin/maildrop -d ${USER}.
can maildrop access that binary. check the permissions of the file as
well as that of all directories (/home, /home/fengland,
/home/fengland/bin) and make sure that maildrop running as the uid used
for delivery can access the binary.
try
# /usr/bin/maildrop -V 6 -d someone < message.eml
and see what it says.
2 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildropRe: [maildropl] xfilter - Unable to f...
