SPUG: Procmail

[Andrew Sweger]

Check your procmail log to see if the pattern is matching at all (is it
calling the script). Then you can workout if the script is working
correctly or not. Note that once the message is piped off to your perl
script, it is considered delivered and no further processing of the
original message is done in the procmail recipe (unless you set up some
other settings in the recipe). Also, the output of the perl script is not
considered by procmail for any processing (can't remember if there's an
option to enable that, however). Otherwise, your recipe below should work
as advertised.

On May 26, 2000 @ 6:01pm, marlin wrote:

> Anybody out there know how to make Procmail pipe an imcoming email
> (with "inventory" as subject) to a Perl script?
> 
> Here's what doesn't work...
> 
> 	:0
> 	* ^Subject:.*inventory
> 	| /path/to/script.pl
> 
> Pseudo-Perl is like this...
> 
> while (<>) {
> 	$msg .= $_;
> 	}
> process $msg;

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