Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered?

From	David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered?
Date	2017-03-07 23:20 +0100
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On Tue 07 Mar 2017 at 14:21:41 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 March 2017 11:16:55 David Wright wrote:
> 
> > On Tue 07 Mar 2017 at 09:43:17 (-0500), Henning Follmann wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:59:16PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > On Monday 06 March 2017 21:47:42 Andy Smith wrote:
> > > > > Hi Gene,
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:29:37PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > > > And what replaces it in the MTA dept?
> > > > >
> > > > > procmail is still in Debian stretch and if it still works for
> > > > > you then it should continue to work for you.
> > > >
> > > > I wanted to add a formail line but the docs do not seem to cover
> > > > that recipe. I want an email to gene@localhost when it sequesters
> > > > a virii.
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > What do you mean by "formail line"?
> > > formail is a command to pipe a mbox thru procmail.
> >
> > Yes, but it's also used _by_ procmail during its processing.
> > For example, here's a standard procmailrc recipe for eliminating
> >
> > messages with identical Message-IDs:
> > :0 Wh: $HOME/msgid.lock
> > :
> > | formail -D 199999 $HOME/msgid.cache
> >
> > So Gene might be looking for a potted recipe for formail to do what he
> > wants, whatever he means by "sequesters a virii", and recipes with
> > formail in them might make good examples to hack at.
> >
> > The obvious place to start is procmailex: insert the safety net; then
> > the example above shows the W code for checking the exit code of
> > formail/virus-scanner/whatever before proceeding, then the vacation
> > example would help with how to generate the desired email
> > notification depending on the exit code. Remember to add the c flag
> > so that the recipe is non-delivering: that means the actual (received)
> > email will always drop through to the next recipe. Otherwise, piping
> > through the virus-scanner might be interpreted as "delivery". After
> > testing remove the safety net if desired.
> >
> > man procmail/procmailrc/procmailex/formail all work here on wheezy and
> > jessie, so I'm not sure why he felt the need to put Alternative Facts
> > into his Subject header.
> >
> Because the procmail web site has had a moving site message up since 
> sometime in 2014?
> 
> And I've been told repeatedly that "its dead Jim", try something else.
> But I'm with you folks, for me it Just Works(TM) but I've long since 
> forgotten the how to write a new recipe part for it.

Yes, my last modification date for .procmailrc is 2004-03-30.
But that's what   man procmailex   is for, a 500-line file of
glossed recipes catering for different situations. With the
hints above, which part of the jigsaw are you missing?

Cheers,
David.

Thread

procmail, when were the last rights administered? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-03-07 03:40 +0100
  Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-03-07 03:50 +0100
    Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-03-07 04:00 +0100
      Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-03-07 04:10 +0100
    Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-03-07 04:00 +0100
      Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered? Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2017-03-07 15:50 +0100
        Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered? Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2017-03-07 17:20 +0100
        Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-03-07 17:20 +0100
          Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-03-07 20:30 +0100
            Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-03-07 23:20 +0100
              Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-03-08 03:20 +0100
  Re: procmail, when were the last rights administered? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-03-07 11:10 +0100

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