Sean ,
Thank you very much for the help. I tried:
:0
* ^FROM:.*
* ^Subject:[ ]*\/[^ ].*
{
SUBJECT=$MATCH
}
:0
* ? perl -e 'require "/home/richard/.pmdir/test_subject.pl";
test_subj("$SUBJECT");'
And it is effectively executing test_subject.pl, but it's not passing on the
subject.
As far as what the recipe needs to do, thanks for offering to help. I
believe I'm almost there but here is a more precise description of what I
want it to do and where I am.
1)Pass the subject as a scalar to the perl script (as attempted above)
2) trap the return value returned by test_subject.pl if it's "1" reject the
message. This part seems to work well for that:
|( formail -rI"From: Responses will be automatically discarded <
gatorreina(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>"; \
echo "Your mail has been administratively rejected."; \
echo "No valid P.O. Number. Please resubmit with valid P.O." \
) | /usr/sbin/ssmtp -oi -t
If the return value is "0" then put the message in a payables folder or if
possible strip off the attachments and save them according to the PO name (
I can easily have that returned as the second scalar back from
test_subject.pl): 2341-1.pdf, 2341-2.pdf, etc. I'm not sure if the last item
is something that procmail can do. I was planning to use ripmime.
Thank you very much for all the help so far. I am very grateful.
Richard
2010/12/20 Professional Software Engineering
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At 09:38 2010-12-20, Richard Reina wrote:
I got it too work. Needed the full path to ssmtp.
Now, if I can just figure out how to pass the subject to a perl script so
it can be test against valid POs in a database.
I can't help but think you should sit down and write out everything you
need this script to do, and just ask someone here to finish writing it for
you...
# this will extract the subject (removing leading whitespace, though you
# could easily deal with that within your perl script)
SUBJECT=""
:0
* ^Subject:[ ]*\/[^ ].*
{
SUBJECT=$MATCH
}
# this will pass the subject to your perl script, using the return value
# to determine if the procmail recipe should take some further action.
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* ? /path/to/some/script.pl "$SUBJECT"
{
# do something (such as sending your "there's no PO number" notice)
}
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