On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Martin McCarthy wrote:
After moving to this version I noted that there were a number of
errors of "procmail: Extraneous ignore-write-error flag ignored" in
my log file. I looked through the code to see why this warning is
occurring but was unable to determine what this warning was or why it
was occurring.
It will be much easier to offer help if you show us the logs and the
recipes that are causing this error to be logged.
Here is one user where I am seeing the errors which only has one recipe.
Another user has a much more complex set of recipes and parsing script,
both have the same problem so its probably easiest to find the issue in
the simple case. :)
I've also attached a copy of the abuse-proc_deliver script.
Here is the .procmailrc
MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail/abuse-proc # You'd better make sure it exists
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/log # Go to the spool
LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail # The default lock file
VERBOSE=off
:0:deliver.abuse
| /home/system/abuse-proc/abuse-proc_deliver
Here are two entries from the log (I've changed the From and Subject to
protect the innocent)
procmail: Extraneous ignore-write-error flag ignored
From user(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com Wed Nov 14 10:29:43 2001
Subject: some subject
Folder: /usr/bin/procmail /home/system/abuse-proc/.procmailrc 4082
From user(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com Wed Nov 14 10:29:43 2001
Subject: some subject
Folder: /home/system/abuse-proc/abuse-proc_deliver 4082
procmail: Extraneous ignore-write-error flag ignored
From user3(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com Wed Nov 14 10:30:00 2001
Subject: some other subject
Folder: /usr/bin/procmail /home/system/abuse-proc/.procmailrc 3639
From user3(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com Wed Nov 14 10:30:00 2001
Subject: some other subject
Folder: /home/system/abuse-proc/abuse-proc_deliver 3639
Are you applying the 'i' flag to a recipe where the action delivers to a
mailbox, forwards to another address or is a nesting block?
I looked through my other .procmailrc's and I don't use the "i" flag
anywhere in either of them.
I would guess that you have a recipe like:
:0 i
* some condition
{
:0
* some other condition
| myprog.pl
}
instead of:
:0
* some condition
{
:0 i
* some other condition
| myprog.pl
}
(note the position of the 'i' flag - which is the ignore-write-error
flag).
If that's not what's happening, give us the extra information and we can
try again.
Hope that helps,
Martin
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