| Bloated in the sense of complexity. My script is one file; I install it by
| changing one line in /etc/mail/aliases. Procmail cannot compete with that.
It's . . . an illusory simplicity, I suspect. But that's okay; it's something
everyone has to learn once in a while. :) Procmail has some r
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Mxsmanic wrote:
> *** There's nothing wrong with reinventing procmail like this, but I'm
> curious why you consider it "bloated"--it's under 64K on my system. ***
>
> Bloated in the sense of complexity. My script is one file; I install it by
> changing one line in /etc/mail/
*** There's nothing wrong with reinventing procmail like this, but I'm
curious why you consider it "bloated"--it's under 64K on my system. ***
Bloated in the sense of complexity. My script is one file; I install it by
changing one line in /etc/mail/aliases. Procmail cannot compete with that.
I
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Mxsmanic wrote:
> I finally got it to work by piping to sendmail. Seems to be adequate for
> what I want to do.
>
> Now all I have to do is design my patented, foolproof methodology for
> distinguishing spam from real mail so that I can encode the rules in the
> script. The
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mxsmanic
> I finally got it to work by piping to sendmail. Seems to be adequate for
> what I want to do.
>
> Now all I have to do is design my patented, foolproof methodology for
> distinguishing spa
something about
getting rid of HTML in mail, which I can't stand.
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Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 09:14
Subject: Re: Getting Perl scripts to wo
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 01:13:17AM +0100, Mxsmanic wrote:
> What about appending directly to the mailbox file under /var/mail/$USER with
> the script? It looks like the format of the file is very simple. Why
> wouldn't that work? I've tried writing to it, but I can't, at least not
> when the scr
"Mxsmanic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| What about appending directly to the mailbox file under /var/mail/$USER with
| the script?
I'd recommend against that. Using the sendmail interface is just as easy
programmatically as appending it to /var/mail/whatever, plus you don't run into
any messy i
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To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Barry Byrne"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FreeBSD Questions"
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Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 1:13 AM
Subject: Re: Getti
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Mxsmanic wrote:
> What about appending directly to the mailbox file under /var/mail/$USER with
> the script? It looks like the format of the file is very simple. Why
> wouldn't that work? I've tried writing to it, but I can't, at least not
> when the script runs from the al
tions"
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Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 23:50
Subject: Re: Getting Perl scripts to work as mail filters
> - Original Message -
> From: "Mxsmanic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Barry Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; &
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From: "Mxsmanic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Barry Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FreeBSD Questions"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: Getting Perl scripts to work as mail fil
"Mxsmanic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| What do I have to do to make a simple Perl script filter incoming mail for a
| mailbox? I wrote a script that just reads standard input and writes it to
| standard output, then put it in my home directory, then changes
| /etc/mail/aliases to point to it, l
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mxsmanic
> *** Well it looks like your script is being run - what should your script
> do? ***
> Heck, it's so simple I can list it here:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
>while ($inputline = )
>{
>
*** Well it looks like your script is being run - what should your script
do? ***
Heck, it's so simple I can list it here:
---
#!/usr/bin/perl
while ($inputline = )
{
$inputline =~ s/18 Dec 2002/29 Dec 2013/;
print STDOUT $inputline;
}
---
The s/// stuff is just to give me
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mxsmanic
> Here are the two relevant log entries after I tried to mail something from
> the console:
>
> Dec 18 18:31:10 myserver sendmail[97621]: gBIHVAo97621:
> from=root, size=39,
> class=0, nrcpts=
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FreeBSD Questions"
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Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 15:28
Subject: RE: Getting Perl scripts to work as mail filters
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Beha
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mxsmanic
> 'Are you sure there is no error - did you check the sendmail log?'
>
> Yup. maillog mentions the message being sent, but indicates no error.
Can you post the log entry - does it say maile
'Are you sure there is no error - did you check the sendmail log?'
Yup. maillog mentions the message being sent, but indicates no error.
'You will need to ensure the script is listed in your sm.bin directory (man
smrsh).'
I thought smrsh was not enabled by default (?). Also, if it couldn't fin
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mxsmanic
> 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
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:46:14PM +0100, Mxsmanic wrote:
> 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/aliase
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