Re: deferral: bash:_reformail:_command_not_found//usr/bin/maildrop:_Unable_to_filter_message./ queue4

Sam,


On 2020-06-12 21:02, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> 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.


Ah - sorry, I misinterpreted what you said before - I thought you meant 
it was incorrectly getting to that reformail line . . I think I know 
what it is now - I will check it out . .

Thanks,

Phil.
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