On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 07:52:24AM +0200, BASSAGET Cédric wrote: > Hello > I'm using fetchamil / procmail to fetch mails from an POP server and parse > it then launch a script or system call : > > > # cat .fetchmailrc > set logfile fetchmail.log > poll imaps.dom.tld proto POP3 > user "u...@dom.tld" pass "xxxxxx" preconnect "date >> ~/fetchmail.log" > ssl > fetchall > keep > no rewrite > mda "/usr/bin/procmail ~/.procmailrc"; > > # cat .procmailrc > LOGFILE=procmail.log > VERBOSE=yes > :0 > * ^Message-ID: \/.* > #| /usr/bin/curl http://mail.dom.tld/script.php?messageid=$MATCH > | echo "whoami" > test.txt > > > This work fine when calling fetchamil as root with "fetchamil -f > .fetchmailrc". But when calling fetchmail from a dedicated user, the > external script in procmail is not called. It's written in the logfile that > : > > procmail: [25332] Mon Jun 19 16:20:28 2023 > procmail: Assigning "MATCH=" > procmail: Matched "<9088600d-446a-96b4-4043-29ecd0d5a...@dom.tld>" > procmail: Match on "^Message-ID: \/.*" > procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER= echo "whoami" > test.txt" > Subject: test > Folder: echo "whoami" > test.txt > 1824 > procmail: Executing " echo "whoami" > test.txt" > > but nothung happens. > Am I missing something ? > Regards > Cédric
Are you sure that procmail is running the command in a shell? Could it be trying to execute a program named 'echo'. You might try creating a shell script you can call. -- Joel Roth
