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What wrong with this recipie set?

1999-12-08 22:22:31
Hello all,

I've tried to write a procmail recipie set to forward a given mail messsage
to a set of users.  The user data is stored in a database (Postgres).  I
wrote a utility to fetch the data (mailprefs).  When run, it emits on
stdout, the text of the query.  For example, the command:

mailprefs frankenclone ja(_at_)soft21(_dot_)s21(_dot_)com F

will return "1" or "0" depending on whether I have a forward request set in
the database (1 = yes).  The command

mailprefs frankenclone ja(_at_)soft21(_dot_)s21(_dot_)com f
will return the address list (comma separated) (ex: 
jantypas(_at_)soft21(_dot_)s21(_dot_)com,
work(_at_)job(_dot_)com)

Given that, the second recipie is causing me trouble.  I get a forwarded
message, but no body.

# The user's ID

USERID="otto(_at_)frankenclone(_dot_)s21(_dot_)com"

# Where the mailprefs program lives

MAILPREFS="/usr/local/bin/mailprefs frankenclone"

# The autoresponder recipie (works)

:0 h c

* !^FROM_DAEMON

* ? test `$MAILPREFS $USERID A` = 1

| (formail -r ; $MAILPREFS $USERID a)| $SENDMAIL -t

# The forward recipie -- messages are forwarded, but no body is sent

:0 h c

* !^FROM_DAEMON

* ? test `$MAILPREFS $USERID F` = 1

| formail -r | $SENDMAIL -t `$MAILPREFS $USERID f`



Thanks for any help as always.

John Antypas

ja(_at_)soft21(_dot_)s21(_dot_)com

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