SPUG: Procmail

[Trey Valenta]

On 2000 May 26, 18:01, marlin wrote:
} Subject: SPUG: Procmail
> 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;

To start, you can put this in your .procmailrc file to get some logs.

VERBOSE=on
LOGFILE=$HOME/.proclog


I think I've come across this before and fixed it by changing below to
 while (<STDIN>) {

I haven't delved into why <> doesn't work and what procmail does when
opening filehandles. And then again, I could be wrong on the answer
anyway. It's early and been a while since I ran into this.

/trey

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trey valenta trey at anvils.org seattle     (maybe a) random quote--v
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		-- Plato

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