Re: Getting xfilter AND delivery to working

On Feb 4, 2016, at 4:56 PM, Philip Rhoades <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Milan,
> 
> 
>> On 2016-02-05 10:14, Milan Obuch wrote:
>> On Fri, 05 Feb 2016 09:09:48 +1100
>> Philip Rhoades <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Milan,
>> 
>> [ snip ]
>> 
>>>> So let me reiterate:
>>>> - you receive mail
>>>> - you need to extract attachment from it
>>>> - you need to save original mail to designated folder
>>>> 
>>>> Did I understand it right?
>>> 
>>> Correct.
>> 
>> Nice, so see below.
>> 
>> [ snip ]
>> 
>>> You are probably right but I don't see how that helps solve the
>>> problem . . I think it might be easier to take out the xfilter line,
>>> let the mail be delivered as normal and set up an inotifywait script
>>> to watch for new files in the appropriate mail dir and then process
>>> them with my Ruby script . .
>> 
>> No need to do it this way. All you need is just two lines:
>> 
>> `/home/phil/bin/bash_internal_variables.sh > /home/phil/t`
>> to $DEFAULT/.tst/
> 
> 
> You must have missed my previous comment - while that DID work in terms 
> of creating the "t" file - the "to" line did NOT work - I just tried it 
> again - still not working . . this also failed:
> 
>   xfilter `/usr/bin/date > /home/phil/t`
>   to $DEFAULT/.tst/

Milan's example omitted 'xfilter.' No xfilter. Bad xfilter. 

- Darren



>> (and replace bash_internal_variables.sh with your real script). That's
>> all. Believe me, just try it. I did. And I am doing various things with
>> maildrop. Some trial and error, some man pages reading is all that's
>> required.
> 
> 
> Well I don't know what is wrong with my setup then . .
> 
> 
>> Now, we can go a bit deeper. If your original mail is correctly
>> structured according MIME standard, which should be the norm nowadays,
>> you could just use reformime. In my case, I use in one recipe the
>> following:
>> 
>> PA=`reformime -e -s 1.1`
>> 
>> If mail MIME structure is the same everytime, there is nothing more to
>> do, in your case, it could become
>> 
>> `reformime -e -s 1.2 > /home/phil/t`
>> to $DEFAULT/.tst/
>> 
>> and you will have in file /home/phil/t just the attachment you wanted.
>> You just need to adjust -s argument according your mail structure.
>> It is possible to test structure with reformime with no arguments.
>> For first experiments with reformime, you could just use
>> 
>> reformime < some_file_name_with_saved_mail
>> 
>> to check structure and then add some arguments to do other useful
>> things.
> 
> 
> That is interesting but I have to do some processing on the attachment 
> before saving the output.
> 
> 
>> Caveat: I am using full Courier mail suite, so I am not sure reformime
>> is part of standalone maildrop package you are using, but I think it
>> is.
> 
> 
> Yes, I have it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Phil.
> -- 
> Philip Rhoades
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