Re: error 75, error 164

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:57:00 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.maildrop
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

[email protected] writes:

> After handing the mail to maildrop, getmail returned the error message:
>
>    Delivery error (command maildrop 18470 error (75, .mailfilter(164):
>    Syntax error after ))) msg 4/1300 (24935 bytes) from
>    <[email protected]>, delivery error
>    (command maildrop 18470 error (75, .mailfilter(164): Syntax error
>    after )))
>
> I merely was showing fragments of the error message, in an attempt to make
> it easy to count the instances of "(* and the instances of ")".  I assume
> that there should be one ")" for each "(".
>
> But there are only three instances of "(":  one before the word "command",
> one before the number "75", and one before the number "164*.  So there
> appears to be an un-matched instance of ")".

The exact error message from maildrop:

Syntax error after )

Maildrop is reporting a syntax error after the occurence of the closing  
parenthesis in the .mailfilter file.

This is getting confusing due to getmail's additional reformatting of the  
error message.

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