Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:46:14 +0100 From: "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Getting Perl scripts to work as mail filters Message-ID: <OE44LIqdqo0czTxscNK00003f79@hotmail.com>
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I can't find an answer to this question anywhere, after two hours of searching the Web: What do I have to do to make a simple Perl script filter incoming mail for a mailbox? I wrote a script that just reads standard input and writes it to standard output, then put it in my home directory, then changes /etc/mail/aliases to point to it, like this: mymail: "|/usr/home/mymail/perlfilter" But when I actually send mail to this address, it just disappears--no error message, nothing. When I execute the same program by hand, it works fine. If I remove the alias, the mail is delivered just fine, too. What am I missing?? The Perl program has 755 for permissions and has mymail:users as its userid and group. The first line points to the location of Perl in the usual way. I am at a loss for ideas as to why this isn't working. The sendmail manual seems to indicate that it just pipes the e-mail message into this script, then delivers whatever comes out of standard output, but it doesn't seem to work. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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