[CentOS] OT: procmail recipe question

James Pifer jep at obrien-pifer.com
Mon Feb 2 15:55:45 UTC 2009


Thanks, that worked. 

James

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 16:55 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> On 2009-02-02 16:45, James Pifer wrote:
> > I'm trying to use procmail and I'm having trouble getting it to set some
> > headers. I have one mailing list that sets Newsgroups: in the header
> > and I want to remove it. I have the following test recipe:
> > 
> > :0
> > * ^Subject:.*\<testing
> > * ^(Mime-Version:|Content-)
> > | formail -IMime-Version: -IContent-
> > 
> > If I understand it correctly, it should remove the Mime-Verion and
> > Content headers.
> > 
> > The recipe gets matched but then doesn't deliver correctly:
> > 
> > procmail: Match on "^Subject:.*\<testing"
> > procmail: Match on "^(Mime-Version:|Content-)"
> > procmail: Executing "formail,-IMime-Version:,-IContent-"
> > procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=formail -IMime-Version: -IContent-"
> > procmail: Notified comsat: "test@:/home/jep/formail -IMime-Version: -IContent-"
> >>From jep at obrien-pifer.com  Mon Feb  2 11:43:03 2009
> >  Subject: testing
> >   Folder: formail -IMime-Version: -IContent-                               1010
> > 
> > 
> > It looks like it's trying to put it in a folder starting with formail. I
> > tried putting the mail file on the next line (/var/mail/test), which is
> > the same way I do it on my kid's procmailrc's, but it seems to ignore
> > it. Where does procmail get the LASTFOLDER thing from?
> > 
> > Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> 
> Add the "f" flag to your recipe, to indicate the receipt is a filter,
> and not a destination.
> 
>   :0 f
>   ...rest or recipe...
> 




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