Re: deferral: bash:_reformail:_comma nd_not_found//usr/bin/maildrop:_Unable_to_filter_ message./ queue4

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Jun 2020 07:02:10 -0400

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Philip Rhoades writes:

> Sam,
>
>
> On 2020-06-10 20:43, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> Philip Rhoades writes:
>>
>>> People,
>>>
>>> I am getting quite a few of these in my log files but my .mailfilter file  
>>> seems fine . . is it crap in (spam?) messages themselves that is causing  
>>> these errors?
>>
>> No, something is broken in your .mailfilter. It is attempting to
>> execute the reformail command, and failing because, allegedly, the
>> command does not exist.
>
>
> Damn . . is there some way of testing the file to see what the problem is?   
> Usually when I make a typo I get an error message with a line number in the  
> logs . .

The error message already tells you what the problem is: maildrop cannot  
execute reformail. Unless you have hundreds of different places  
in .mailfilter where reformail gets executed, there won't be many  
possibilities.

You can always run maildrop with a test message piped in on standard input.  
But you'll just get the same error message.

A problem gets reported on a particular line only when there's an actual  
syntax error. Here, there is no syntax error with .mailfilter itself, it  
just can't execute the reformail command. That's what the problem is. Why  
can't the reformail command get executed? That's something you'll need to  
figure out. Maybe the reformail command itself got accidentally deleted.  
Maybe its not in a directory that's in the default PATH. Or it may be  
something else entirely.

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