Re: crm114 and procmail: eating mails

Antoine Junod <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.crm114
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Ger Hobbelt" <[email protected]> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Antoine Junod <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Can you test this slight change to the recipe:
>
> ### ->
> :0fw: .lockmsg
> | /usr/bin/crm114 -u /usr/share/crm114/ --fileprefix
> /usr/share/crm114/ mailfilter.crm 2>&1
>
> :0
> /var/vpopmail/domains/my.domain.com/tickets/.maildir/
> ### <-
>
> (= added the 2>&1 up there)
> Because I'm out on a limb there regarding procmail as I never used it
> before, so to verify my assumptions about allowable redirection in
> recipes, you might test my idea using our trusted 'tee' command there
> first:
>
>   | tee /usr/share/crm114/blubber.txt 1>&2
>
> Note the reversal of the 1 and 2 in the stdio redirection in this
> line, because I want 'tee' to echo stdin to stderr instead of stdout.

The 2>&1 or 1<&2 does not seem to be a feature provided by
procmail. It makes it spit dirty error messages.

> The idea is that crm114 has something to say and does so on stderr,
> which might not be caught by the pipe-filter, so we redirect stderr
> 2 to stdout 1 before returning to procmail.  It's all hunch and a
> bit of burning incense waving, but this is the best I can do for you
> at this moment.

Okay. Thanks a lot. What I will do is that I'll 1) try to remove
everything a re-install all that from scratch and 2) try to install
that on another platform.

Best regards,
-AJ

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