[olug] procmail vacation intermittent error

[Jon H. Larsen]

$CAT is defined in a generic variable INCLUDERC

Only one message is ever returned to the sender.  There is a lot of the 
script you didn't see, my only problem was the actual reply portion.

My procmail script will:
 a) take requests for Vacation Instructions only from the owner of the 
account
 b) turn on or turn off vacation via email messages with SPECIFIC subjects 
only from the owner.

As many incoming email msgs (FROM_DAEMON, etc) are caught before the 
vacation reply goes out, including 'noreply' type information messages 
from internal servers.

Jon L.

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Sean Kelly wrote:

> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:17:44 -0500
> From: Sean Kelly <smkelly at zombie.org>
> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] procmail vacation intermittent error
> 
> In the log below, it says:
>   procmail: Executing "cat,/home/user1/admin1/.vacation.msg"
> 
> However, in the one that worked it said:
>   procmail: Executing "/bin/cat,/home/user1/admin1/.vacation.msg"
> 
> Note that the one that works has a path, while the one that doesn't does
> not. Where is $CAT being defined at?
> 
> Also, it is generally considered best practice to only reply once over a
> given period to a sender. Does your rule do this?  Is there some other
> unshown rule that also keeps you from auto-replying to lists? Possibly mail
> filtering for lists before this rule?
> 
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 08:17:21AM -0500, Jon H. Larsen wrote:
> > 
> > I changed the lines to :0 ???: vacation.lock
> > 
> > Got the same result:
> > procmail: Unlocking "vacation.lock"
> > procmail: Locking "vacation.lock"
> > procmail: Executing "cat,/home/user1/admin1/.vacation.msg"
> > procmail: Error while writing to "cat"
> > procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded
> > procmail: Unlocking "vacation.lock"
> > procmail: Locking "vacation.lock"
> > 
> > Puzzling, eh?
> > 
> > On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Dave Weis wrote:
> > 
> > > Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:32:07 -0500
> > > From: Dave Weis <djweis at internetsolver.com>
> > > Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> > > To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [olug] procmail vacation intermittent error
> > > 
> > > Jon H. Larsen wrote:
> > > > I have a procmail based vacation at work.  I have been encountering a 
> > > > intermittent error that I can't seem to resolve.  My script seems to work 
> > > > only half the time.  It only fails sometimes when attempting to cat a 
> > > > files for inclusion in the outgoing response email.  
> > > > 
> > > > Here is the procmail code for the return message:
> > > > 
> > > > :0 fhw
> > > > * ^Subject: *\/[^ ].*
> > > > | $FORMAIL -I "Subject: I am away AutoReply (was: $MATCH)"
> > > > 
> > > > :0 fbw
> > > > | $CAT $HOME/.vacation.msg
> > > > 
> > > > :0 w
> > > > | $SENDMAIL -t -Rhdrs
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > You might want to use lockfiles to make sure you aren't running the 
> > > recipes in parallel. Change the first lines to :0???: (add trailing colon)
> > > 
> > > dave
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> > 
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