> > Also I had a lot of trouble today with filters, until I realized that they > > fail if they print to standard output. I just wanted a simple filter to make > > a copy of every mail to another directory so I wrote a .bat file to do that, > > but the copy command wrote a line to stdout and then nothing worked. That's > > a nuisance. Couldn't xmail start the .bat file with write access to its own > > console? It would be nice to see the messages when running xmail in debug > > mode too. > > You've to run the .bat file with "cmd.exe -c ..." >
No, that was not the problem. As an example, this doesn't work: [mailproc.bat] c:\inetpub\xmailroot\bin\sendmail --xinput-file %1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] exit /b 0 whereas this works: [mailproc.bat] @echo off c:\inetpub\xmailroot\bin\sendmail --xinput-file %1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] exit /b 0 It's easy to make this mistake of not turning off echo in a .bat file or doing something that generates output, and I think it would be a big advantage not having to remember do it. If I hadn't had a vague memory of an old post about this issue I would've never figured out why the bat file didn't work. There's also something I don't quite understand: My filter works when I in the .tab file put in the line "c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe" "/C" "c:\inetpub\xmailroot\bin\mailproc.bat" "@@FILE" "@@FILE" but not when I put in the line "c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe" "/C" "c:\inetpub\xmailroot\bin\mailproc.bat" "@@FILE" To me the second line seems like it should work for calling the previous batch file to copy the mail to another user. I know I could call sendmail directly, but I originally had a .bat file to copy the file and I'm still working out how I want to archive the copies. Andreas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
