Re: inconsistent recipie failure

On 24-Jan-2011, at 08:27, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> 
> Hello Robert Bonomi,
> 
> Am 2011-01-24 04:38:46, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
>> Relevant ~/.procmailrc fragments
>> 
>>  MAILDOMAIN="r-bonomi[.]com"
>>  MAILHOST="mail[.]${MAILDOMAIN}"
> 
> Should be:
>    MAILDOMAIN="r-bonomi\.com"
>    MAILHOST="mail\.${MAILDOMAIN}"

That is normal, but there is nothing wrong with using [.]

>>  :0
>>  * <<a pattern that matches>>
>>  {
>>    :0 w
>>    * $ ^Received: from [^ ]* \( *[^[].*${MAILHOST}
>>    DELIVERABLE=|/bin/echo /home/bonomi/{{filename}}
> 
> Should be:
>    :0
>    * $ ^Received: from [^ ]* \( *[^[].*${MAILHOST}
>    /home/bonomi/{{filename}}

For certain values of 'should'. We don't know why he's using echo. There MIGHT be some reason.

> Question:   Why do you pipe the WHOLE message to the "echo" command
>            which does not support STDIN?

That is the question.


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